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Show 3278 Dent- 1303 will be absolutely at the mercy of the witness. THE SPECIAL MASTER: It is only his views, but if you object to it, I withdraw it. Q Now, in your experience, if a river carries a large amount of sand, do bars form more quickly if the river is swift or if it is slow -- if the current is swift or it is slow? A The swift currents, of course, make the faster changes. Q Do they build up higher bars or lower bars, swift current? A The swift currents builds a shoaler river. Q That would depend some what on the question of whether the river could spread out, or whether it flows between canyon walls, wouldn't it? A The Colorado river can spread out between canyon walls by merely filling up its bed a few feet above where it is at the present time. Q You said there was a leeway of about one hundred feet on each side, did you? A Speaking generally, I should say the box canyon is eight hundred to a thousand feet, while the river surface is not more than six hundred. Moab to the junction, a distance, speaking from memory now, of, say, sixty- seven miles, the river has a fall of roughly sixty- seven feet. It is an unescapeable law of nature that this river must create friction of sixty- seven feet, use up energy corresponding to a sixty- seven feet fall in going from Moab |
