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Show 6027 472 Seitz - D 4030 Q And how is it handled today? A The only statement that I can make I an experience that I had on the Clark Fork of the Columbia. I quit work there in the fall and next spring when I came down they had a freshet of ten feet. I simply waited until it had gotten down to within a reasonable distance of where it was when I quit the season before. On mountain streams the rise and fall is very sudden. By The Special Master: Q Well, let me ask you this question: When a rise in the river comes, the rise is greater, is int not, where the river is boxed into a canyon than it is where the river spreads out? A Yes, sir. Q Now, suppose you have a survey which leads from a canyon into a place where the river spreads out. If you take the water level in the canyon and the water level in the wide regions, you would show a much greater difference of eleva-tions in high water than you would in low water, would you not? Do you understand what I mean? I am trying to get it in my own head -- take a section of a river where there is a canyon leading into a more open space? A Yes, sir. Q The difference of elevations between the water in the canyon and the open spaces in time of low water would be |