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Show ( Lieutenant-Colonol LieutenantColonol Licittena7it-Coloual Licittena7itColoual ) Elliot 27 J . Dont testified : I am in the Corps of Engineers , 11 S . Army , have had experience on many rivers of the United States , and between September 25 and October 4 , 1929 , examined the Colorado River . . ( R . 1217-18 , Vol . 7 . ) I went down the Colorado from Moab to Cataract Canyon ; thence up the Green River 5 miles ; thence back to the confluence and up to Moab . The bed of the Colorado is quite permanently located between rock banks , with small opportunity to move sidewise more than a few hundred feet or as much . as its full width . Within these limits the bed is very changeable . With few exceptions the bars had small trees on them , generally not older than 20 years . ( R . 1222-7 , Vol . 7 . ) We left Moab on August 25 , 1929 , in the ( 27-foot 27foot ) power boat of Moab Garage Company , and I observed numerous ( ground ground- ground ) ings of the boat . ( R . 1227-33 , Vol . 7 . ) As compared with the lower Mississippi River the sand in the water of the Colorado was extremely heavy . ( R . 1244 , Vol . 7 . ) I know of no other river in the United States comparable in character to the Colorado . ( R . 1247 , Vol . 7 . ) After ( ex- ex ) amining this stretch of the Colorado I went overland to North Wash , leaving that point in a ( 16-foot 16foot ) boat with a ( 4-foot 4foot ) beam and a very pronounced keel , powered with an outboard ( 8-horsepower 8horsepower ) motor on September 1 , 1929 . ( R . 1252-1256 , Vol . 7 . ) Between Mile 78 and Mile 74 1 ( ob- ob ) served sand waves , the worst of which were 10 or 12 feet long , that is , between crests , and about 3 feet in height , tapering down to nothing but the chop . We had no ( diffi- diffi ) culty in getting through . ( R . 1261-3 , Vol . 7 . ) At Red Canyon ( Mile 150 ) we saw a prospector with a skiff about 12 feet long but no other boats . ( R . 1266 , Vol . 7 . ) With the boats actually in use between Moab and the junction that section was much more navigable than Grand Canyon . ( R . . 1267 , Vol . 7 . ) 1 was instructed by the War ( Depart- Depart ) ment to assist in this case and understood the nature of the controversy here involved . ( R . 1271-2 , Vol . 7 . ) We left North Wash ( 1671 2 miles above Lees Ferry ) at 1 : 30 p . m . , , on September I ( R . 1277 , Vol . 7 ) and arrived at Lees Ferry at 1 : 10 p . m . ( R . 1282 , Vol . 7 ) on September 4 ( R . . 1267 , Vol . 7 ) , making a side trip to Rainbow Bridge on September 3 . ( R . 1280 , Vol . 7 . ) I was never before on that river and have never seen it since . ( R . 1288 , Vol . 7 . ) There was much more water in that section of the river below North Wash than on the section between Moab |