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Show 637 " BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q. Page 140 of your Canyon Voyage, it is recited: " The next day, October 4th, we ran into a stratum of sandstone shale, which at this low stage of water, for about five miles gave us some trouble." R. 1534. " BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q. Can you locate that point on the river?" R. 1534. ( Objection R. Vol. 9, pp. 1534; overruled pp. 1536). ( Exception R. Vol. 9, pp. 4536). It was very difficult to locate a particular point like the stratum of sandstone shale which he believes was below the mouth of Dirty Devil River some seven or eight miles. When they ran on to these ledges of shale, they had to get out of the boats and walk alongside, and as the shale dropped off suddenly at the end of these tilted ledges one would sometimes suddenly go over his head [ in the water]. These obstructions occurred for some miles, and the process of getting over them repeated each time. In the middle of October, 1871, when he first passed the mouth or the San Juan River, it was rather low, like the Colorado, and not more than twenty or thirty feet wide, as he recollects. R. 1537. The second time he passed the mouth of the San Juan River, about July 1, 1872, the Colorado River was filled from wall to wall with a terrific current which, of course, backed up more or less the water of the San Juan, which was also quite high. R. 1537- 1538. |
