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Show Record In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Mr. Chaffin testified: 3308 The same conditions did not prevail where there was a gravel bed as where there was a sand bed, there being a more permanent channel where the bed was gravel. " Where the river runs swift, and the gravel beds was, it took a lifetime to make much of a change." Resuming his direct examination Mr. Chaffin testified: The rise and fall of the river occasioned by rains would 3309 result in washing silt into the stream and this would change the bed of the river at points where the water was still more than any other cause. Although there would be rain storms and floods every once in a while throughout the year, the floods that did the damage came in the fall when the water was low. A flood during high water would make no noticeable difference. I recall one September 3310 flood when the river rose eleven feet in ten hours. The main part of the flood subsided in four or five days, but its effect lasted quite a long while - it must have been two weeks. On the occasion last mentioned we went down the river with a twenty- five or thirty foot boat for some steel mining rails, intending to get them at the Little Giant Bar below Hall's Crossing and bring them up to the Moquie Bar. I brought them upstream to the end of Elbow Bar, where I left them until the river went down, and I used a horse to pull them up over the shallow rapids at Elbow Bar. During the years that I was on the Colorado I waded the river at Shock Bar at Lake Canyon and at a certain place that I 3311 don't remember the name of located below the San Juan River. I have waded the river with a pair of hip boots on without getting wet. In 1908 I mined on the New Year Bar and took some machinery. In 1917 I took some machinery out for Mr. Wolverton, consisting of a Star drilling machine and a Keystone rig. I think that the |