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Show 4574 Freeman- D 2593 My question was, where you first heard of it. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Did you make any observation with reference to any changing conditions of the channel of the river? A Some differences in the channel were observable between the up- trip and the down. Q What do you call the channel of the river? A The channel of the river would be the point you would navigate, where the deeper water is. The rate of change is affected greatly by the amount of the flow. A heavy flow will facilitate the movement of the sand; it would shift a sandbar according to the way the current deflected by this or that wall strikes it. That is inseparable from any sand- bearing river. Q With particular reference to the Colorado river, did you make any observations as to the location of any change in the channel between the up- stream trip and your down- stream trip? A Not specifically. We occasionally remarked that the channel was changed here and there, or had moved this way or that, or might have amid, " we are encountering shallow water where we found it deeper." On takes that as a matter of course with any sand-bearing rivers; you get it anywhere. |