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Show Record Valentine Woodbury testified on cross examination as follows: 1823 The boiling condition that I referred to is what we call a boil in the Missouri River. We see the same things on the Colorado where the canyon narrows up. It is caused more or 1824 less by submerged rocks. This boiling condition is nothing more than the ordinary swirling of water and occurs where there are rocks in a street to impede the current. It occurs in any river 1826 where there are rocks in the current. Perhaps fifteen or twenty times on the trip down there were places where most of the boats struck; we did not all have to get overboard; sometimes we could push off with ancer. There were some places where all the boats got stuck. I think we were all stuck just below Double Bowknot on the Green. I have a clear recollection of being stuck myself. Dodge didn't get stuck there, but if I remember correctly the other 1828 five did. I am not sure whether all of us were stuck at that place above Bull Frog Rapid; I am sure that all of us hit bottom and dragged over there; we did not all have to get out; I did not have to get out but it took me and my radio man fifteen minutes to push ourselves off with the oars. There are other places where four or five of us hit, but I doubt if we stuck. There were two places where the majority of us were fast, once in Glen Canyon and once at the Bowknot. 1829 In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master the witness stated that he had never been on the Colorado River before; that he did not use any maps or surveys; that Messrs. LaRue and Barber, a New York Times reporter who was with them, had a topographic map showing the fall of the rapids in part. Outside Cataract Canyon there was no unusual difficulty in taking these boats through any section of the rivers traversed by our party, except from the had swirls in the narrow parts of the can-yon. 237 |