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Show 141 -- 137-- are clumps of willows; the other half, approximately, do not have willows on them. " Q I see. How wide is the Green River generally between canyon walls beyond which the stream can not go and never does go? " A Well, in some places two thousand or three thousand feet; and others are not so wide." R. 305. He has given the maximum width, " and I have given the average width in the text." R. 305- 306. " Q Well, what is the average width? " A Well, it is in my report; I can not say. I would say 1,000 or 1,500 feet." R. 306. Since the 1909 army report was made there have been a good many floods and high water, and all that sort of thing. R. 306. Some of the bars and riffles, not having willows, are composed of sand of the character that he has described. R. 307. " Q Is that not, to your mind as an expert and student of rivers, very conclusive demonstrative evidence of stable channels, at least at those points? " A No, sir." R. 307. " Q Why is it not? " A Well, take the bar right there at Greenriver, Brown's Bar, right below the railroad bridge. I dare say that there is always a bar there, on account of the fact that it is the mouth of Saleratus Wash; but the material making up that bar has probably changed hundreds of times." R. 307. With respect to the channel and the bar, whether that was the particular material of the bar |