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Show 988 reefs, you know, above there, we had to do the same thing." R. 2343. The water was low at that time, the river flowing probably eight thousand second feet. He knows this because he had occasion to ask the gauger down the river [ Lees ferry] what the flow was and was told seventy- five hundred [ second feet] at that time. R. 2343. He stayed with the expedition until they had finished the work, which was in December. " When I got back on that trip I continued down that time; that was last trip I ever made until this month." R. 2344 Last Chance Creek, where the greatest trouble was encountered on the trip up the river in a motor boat, is the next big loop above the Crossing of the Fathers. The Crossing of the Fathers is a ford where Kane Creek comes in from the west and the point [ walls] on the east break down so that the river can be reached. He noticed particularly on this trip that the Fathers could have crossed there. " They must have went up on the bar after they got down to the river, went up on the bar and then crossed over to the mouth of Kane creek." R. 2345. So far as he knows, in low water one could cross there quite easily but he never got out and tried to cross there himself, and has never seen anyone fording there. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER:" " Q Is there any one running boats over there now? " A No, any more than you have got shallow water. We had no trouble at that time, but we had eighteen thousand second feet of water on this last trip through there." He is unable to identify photograph 243, of Complainant's Exhibit ll D, as the Crossing of the Fathers. R. 2345- 2346. |