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Show 142 -- 138-- twenty years ago, you would find the relationship of the channel and the bar to be practically the same. " I state in here ( indicating report) what I consider the stability of each bar in great detail, according to that, Mr. Farnsworth. " By Mr. Farnsworth: " Q Yes, I have read your report; I know that you have; that is in evidence here. Many of these bars - for instance, the Butterfly; at that time, the time of the 1909 army report, as you state, your party took the left channel, but recommended the right channel around that bar; is that not correct? " A Yes, sir. I said that on November 25, 1909, a survey of the bar was made by the Army Engineer Corps. Conditions at the time of my investigations were not materially different. That channel has widened somewhat, but it is still the main channel. The right channel has widened materially." R. 308. At that time this bar separated the river, one channel on side and one channel on the other. He has a picture of that bar. " I have photographs of all the bars; plates 17 and 106." That bar out in the middle of the river is substantially at the same point and somewhat of the same general size as it was twenty years ago, ( R. 309) and generally speaking, there is a bar now wherever there was a bar then. There were willows on that bar. The plate shows the willows at an elevation of 15 feet above the river. Photograph 106 shows a tree that is probably a cottonwood. Each plate shows the type of vegetation |
