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Show Record times they hauled driftwood. I do not know of any coal being brought in there except on the boats. I do not know of the Violet Louise bringing down and coal. I have been at Lee's Ferry throughout the whole year and have observed rapid rises in the river. Where the stream spreads out, it wouldn't rise half as much as it would in narrow canyons. On one occasion I saw the river rise a foot an hour in twenty- four hours at Lee's Ferry. 3030 That was in October and the rise was occasioned by heavy rains in the mountains. The river always rises rapidly in the spring from melting snow. There was one year when the rise was greater than ever known before or since. That was in 1884 and I can 3031 just remember it. The way I remember it is that the government surveyors had taken their starting point from that period. There was a tree in the orchard that bad a fork just above where the water line came on the tree. It is a dry stump now but still stands there. I showed the government engineers where the water stood on that tree and they took their starting point from there in order to estimate all the way along the river where the high water came to. I can't say how many feet above low water mark that mark on the tree is. The stream is three- quarters of a mile wide there at one point, and I suppose that the mark on the tree might be twenty or twenty- five feet from the low water mark at that point. One winter when I did assessment work for Mr. Stanton on his river locations at a point in Arizona, a few miles above 3032 Lee's Ferry, I made a trip with Mr. Marrs from Lee's Ferry upstream about twenty miles. Jeremiah Johnson testified on cross examination as follows: I was eight years old when that big flood came, but am sure that I didn't get our trees mixed up when I showed Mr. La Rue where the water came to on that tree. There was a garden surrounding that tree and I marked it with an ax, cutting a notch in the tree at the place where the water came; that was as near as I could 3034 recollect years later where the water came to. I marked the tree |