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Show Record 3511 Sand waves, unlike waves in a bad rapid, are regular and not so high. In a bad rapid the waves vary a great deal, and some of them may rise to a height of ten or twelve feet. When I say the sand waves are more regular than those in a bad rapid, I mean that the waves run in succession right on down the main current of the stream, very much like a succession of waves in the ocean or a large body of water when the wind is blowing. They generally start to break at about the center because that is 3512 where they get the highest. They occur in the main current of the river and do not form on the riffles or rapids but where the stream is more quiet. I have navigated the river through these sand waves and in doing so we generally work to get along the out-side edge of the waves where the water is shallow and there is not such a rising and falling of waves. I wouldn't go down sand waves 3513 broadside if I could help it; it would be pretty risky. We always back down through any rough water, stern foremost. Walter E. Medenhall testified on cross examination as follows: 3514 From 1922 to 1924 I was on the Colorado River working placer ground both above and below Moab and went up and down the river in boats while doing so; that is the only way you can go, practically. During that period I traveled the river in boats about three and a half miles above the Moab bridge and down the river twenty- two or twenty- three miles below the bridge. When I was on the San Juan River in 1894 working the bars, I took out considerable gold - several thousand dollar worth; 3515 probably four or five thousand dollars worth of gold. I took this out between the late fall of 1893 and the fall of 1894, which would be a period of approximately a year. We generally took our gold to Bluff, where I shipped most of it to the First National Bank of Durango, although I sent some of it directly to the mint. It was carried out overland. While I was on the San Juan River in 1893 and 1894, I saw 495 |
