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Show 939 ( 'The The ) purpose of the trip was for locating a feasible reservoir and dam site on the river . He does not ( re- re ) call the names of the sites considered , but one of them ( 'was was ) possibly a site at Lees Ferry . ( ( R . 3697 . ) 1 . great number of troublesome riffles and rapids were encountered on the trip from Hite down to Lees Ferry . . Does not remember names of ( them thern ) . He rernembers crossing one at the mouth of the San ( -Juan Juan ) River , and the river being so full of mud that their boat , which leaked very rapidly , stopped ( leak- leak ) ing because the water was so muddy , and he got out of the boat , and put hife foot down , and he thought , they were going on a rock ; ( he lie ) put one leg out of the boat , , and thought he was stepping out on a rock , ( 'and and ) he went down almost to his neck , and found he was in a moving sand ( bar-the barthe ) thing was just ( mov- mov ) i . ing down the river . And there were a number of other places . . ( R . . 3698 . ) So far as you know , do you know of any other river in the United States similar to the Colorado River which is beingncvigated ( commercially cornmercially ) ? ( R . . 3698- 3702' ) ) TheSPECIAL MASTER . I would like to make an addition to my ruling on that question , so that you may have no misunderstanding . Mr ( BLACKMAR BLACKAIAR ) Yes . . . . . . TheSPECIAL MASTER . . I would say that , if he knows of no river similar to the Colorado , it ( necessa- necessa ) rily follows that he knows of no river similar to it that is cormmercially . . ( R . . 3702 . . ) |
