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Show Record 3 o'clock in the afternoon it was back where it had been before the rise. As I recall the Green River carried not over 20,000 second feet of water at the time we left the town of Green River. When we came down into Glen Gorge we found the high water mark to be 20 to 30 or 40 feet above the level of the water at which we were traveling at that time, which indicated to mo a rise of 20 or 30 or 40 feet that one night in Cataract Canyon. I found driftwood lodged 100 feet above the level of the water; this occurred in 1884 when they had a real flood. Exhibit No. 40 il- 65 lustrates the type of camp we established through the canyon and shows the sand bars so frequently found at the water's edge, also the type of slope that I prefer to camp near because it afforded us a chance to drag our boats up the rocks in case of flood. We occasionally had to stop to dry our equipment as illustrated in 65 - 66 this photograph. Exhibit No. 41 was taken to illustrate the type of walls and the impossibility of climbing out in the event of shipwreck; also one of our larger boats. The rapid shown in this picture is either No. 18, 19, 20, 21, or 22. It is a riffle rather than a rapid and we experienced no difficulty in getting through there. Exhibit No. 42 shows Gypsum Canyon, a side canyon coming 67 into Cataract Canyon on the left. Exhibits Nos. 43 and 44 were taken at a point where Dark Canyon enters Cataract Canyon between mile 182 and 183. At this point we lined the boats through a side 68 channel. This is known as Dark Canyon rapid and the velocity of current was so great that one of our boats was pulled away from the men holding it but it swung into the backwater and was recovered. 69 Exhibit No. 45 is a typical picture of Narrow Canyon. It is below Cataract Canyon. Exhibit No. 46 is a photograph of the junction 70 of the Fremont ( also called Dirty Devil) and Colorado Rivers. This picture shows the characteristics of about six or seven miles of the river. Exhibit No. 47 is a photograph at a point approximately on the Utah- Arizona line. Many of these eight- by- ten photograph - 10 - |
