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Show 761 would wash through. He believes this happened two or three or perhaps four times. R. 1822. Cross Examination: ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1823- 1829.) He describes the boiling condition further in the Colorado River as being the same thing as a boil in the Missouri River, and is caused more or less from submerged rocks. These boils catch the boat, carry it out of line, cut it around in circles, and it is difficult to get it back in to the main current. It is kind of a Whirlpool condition with a flat top instead of a vortex. They will take your boat out of control. He found this condition all along from about one hundred miles above Lees Ferry down to the ferry it self, and states that the boils are worse as one approaches Lees Ferry. He doesn't mean that there is anything unusual about it, but that this same condition occurs in any river where there are rocks in the current. R. 1823- 1824. Above Bull Frog Rapid there were two boats on the bar where the men had to get overboard. He also has landed on a bar himself, but he can't locate the places definitely. He recalls the one at the mouth of the canyon that leads to the Rainbow Natural Bridge, where Dodge struck the shore on a rock or a gravel bar. He came in right behind Dodge and did the same thing. They had difficulty in getting off as there was swift water there. R. 1825. There were lots of places where the boats struck, perhaps fifteen or twenty on the trip down, but they didn't |
