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Show 6712 4701 improvement by the general government at this time." I may say that in other sections of the report the question of making the cataract canyon navigable is referred to. It is dealt with from an engineering standpoint; it might be made navigable by the use of locks, but the condi-tions there are as we stipulated merely assured by the personally making that statement, and are based entirely on hearsay. In certain section of the report they refer to these riffles below Greenriver, and say that from their investigations there are not any such difficulties as require removal in order to carry on any commerce that need be carried on over the river at time; that they are not insurmountable at all, and that from their investigations there is no difficulty in navigating, but they could be improved at the expense which the engineers indicate, so there would not be any difficulty at those points. On page 20 in the report, signed by D. E Hughes, Assistant engineer, and Lieutenant Charles T. Leeds of the corps of engineers, this statements is made: ( Reads:) " It is my opinion that a skillful pilot, if navigating the rivers regularly, could without difficulty take at time of ordinary low water a flat- bottom boat of sample power, 60 feet long, 12 feet beam, drawing 24 inches, over the Grand |
