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Show 896 and finally get it off the bar and into the water that would float it. " This barge drew very little water; it was built for that purpose.". R. 2117. Exhibit No. 264 is a picture of the survey party, and was taken fifty or sixty miles below Greenriver, in the canyon. It shows them " pushing the scow off of one of the many sandbars." R. 2118. This scow was the " Betsy Ann", and the stern wheel paddle was not put on until after the drilling operations ceased, and the outfit was brought up from the junction to the Wimmer's ranch. R. 2118. Between Greenriver, Utah, and the junction, he had made two trips with the survey party, one with the Diamond drilling outfit, and three or four trips while the drilling operation was going on. He believes he took two trips up the Grand [ Colorado] River; and one with Mr. La Rue, on Mr. Wimmer's boat, up the Green River to the Wimmer's Ranch. R. 2119. " Q. As far as the Green river is concerned, with reference to the channel, did you observe anything with reference to changing conditions in the channel, on these various trips, and if so, what? " A. There is no fixed channel that we could discover, except in two or three places where the bars threw the water against these rock cliffs at sharp curves in the cliffs themselves; the cliffs, I think, were the controlling points there; at these points the water was very fast, and deeper, but otherwise, |