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Show Record when it was extremely low. On that trip I remained down these until 2966 about the first of September. Exhibits 465 and 466 are plats showing the work we did on the river, including the land not we ran covering the various permits and our triangulation work done to determine high water mark. The river as shown on these exhibits indicates what we judged to be the mean high water mark 2967 as show by water lines on the banks. We took into consideration willows and grass growing there in determining the water mark. 2968 Exhibit 465 shows very little variation from the government map, and I am unable to say where the variation occurs with respect to 2969 Well No. 1. I am unable to say whether this map shows a well above mean high water mark at places where by government survey that well is below mean high water mark. This map shows both No. 1 and No. 2 Wells as being above mean high water mark. Exhibit 2970 466 is a continuation of Exhibit 465 and shows the land and meander lines on the river through the J. H. Shafer structure. 2971 ( Exhibits 465 and 466 are offered in evidence.) While I was in 2972 that locality I was on the river practically every day. We didn't have trouble every trip, but almost every trip encountered this trouble, especially in crossing the river on trips on the larger boats up to Moab. Our only trouble was running on sand bars. We didn't always find the channel in the same place. At extreme low water the channels were easier to see because the bars would be more or less exposed. At extreme high Water the greatest trouble was in following what we know to be the best channel in crossing 2973 the river from one side to the other. " In traveling up and down the river as many times as we did, we of course got to know places where the water was the deeper, and at extreme high water there was enough back eddies along the banks to aid considerably in going upstream rather than trying out in the main channel." But occasionally in going up on one side of the bank we would run in to where we knew there were submerged rocks because we had seen them at low water; our only chance then was to cross the river |
