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Show Record probably about a week, going from Cottonwood on down to the Colorado River. There was never water so you could get down through. There was quite a bit of sand- waving shallow places and it was not very good going with the flat bottom boat we had. " We got stuck a time or two" on sand bars. After we reached the Colorado River we went up the Colorado River to Hanson Creek. That was my first and last experience on the San Juan River and we didn't take out any gold on that trip. 3325 The first sand waves I recall noticing on the Colorado River was in the winter of 1898, when we went down to the Klondyke Bar, when we encountered the first bad sand waves below the mouth of the San Juan River. I never know what a sand wave was until I came down the San Juan. Louis M. Chaffin testified on cross examination as follows: The streams concerning which I have been testifying, particularly the Colorado and San Juan Rivers, are at the lowest stage of water in February and are at a very low stage in December. The lowest stage of water in these streams is in December, January and February. 3326 On my trip down the Green River we had no trouble above the mouth of the San Rafael River, but from the mouth of the San Rafael down to the mouth of the Green River we encountered many sand bars and there are very much more obstructions of that character in that stretch of the Green River than are encountered between the foot of Cataract Canyon and the Utah- Arizona state line. So far as shallow water and sand bars are concerned the difficulties of navigation are very much greater on the Green River from the San Rafael down to the mouth of the Green than on the stretch of river between the foot of Cataract Canyon and the Utah- Arizona state line; and so far as making progress in boats is concerned, there are many more interruptions to travel going downstream on the Green River below the mouth of the San Rafael than on the Colorado river between Cataract Canyon and the state line. I have never been upstream 460 |
