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Show succeeded in ( going- going going ) up and down 75 the river and when our boat got stuck we always succeeded in getting into deeper water . ( R . 2786-8 , Vol . 15 . ) We surveyed about ten miles inland to the east from our camp at Lockhart . The average width of our survey along the river was five miles , and we had camps that were 5 or 6 miles off the river on both sides , with five to seven men in those parties . The camps of the parties working on land were in most places inaccessible from the river . Each party had a pack train . One truck load would supply the different parties . ( R . 2788-90 , Vol . 15 . ) Howard W . Miller testified : I am employed in the execution of public land surveys for the U . S . General Land Office . ' ( R . 2799 , Vol . 15 . ) In October , 1911 , ( I 1 ) located a ford across the Green River at a point about a mile east of the mouth of the San Rafael and took our stock across there without swimming them ; I would say that the depth of the river at that ford was about three feet on that ( oc- oc ) casion . ( R . 2806-7 , Vol . 15 . ) Carl S . Swanholm testified : I am U . S . Cadastral Engineer , and from ( September Septeinber ) 1st to the early part of December , 1926 , was in charge of the meander survey work below Moab . ( R . 2828-9 , Vol . 15 . ) One of our camps was just on the outskirts of Moab . Most of our supplies for our lower camp were taken down the river ( an on ) a barge but some of them were taken down on a small boat . At times when the barge ( didn't didnt ) go below Well No . 1 we would have our supplies delivered there and take them thence to our camp by pack outfit , or we would go up with a small boat and bring them in . ( R . 2829-30 , Vol . 15 . ) About ( Decem Decem- Decem ) ¬ ber 1st I made the trip upstream on the Moab Garage barge and it consumed an entire day because we frequently struck a sand bar . In 1926 our party had a boat which I operated most of the time . We used it to transport us up and down the river in making our surveys . It had an Evinrude motor and drew 10 to 12 inches with a light load . With that boat we were frequently delayed on bars and the shearing off of propeller blades occurred . I believe it required the replacement of one propeller blade during the 1926 season . I sometimes noted changes in channel occurring within 24 hours and at other places the channel would remain the same during the entire period we were there . ( R . 2830-4 , Vol . 15 . ) The surface of the water at that time was from |
