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Show TheSPE CIAI MASTER : 890 Let it appear in the record that the witness thinks but is not positive that the picture is on the return trip . ( -Compl Compl ) . Exhibit ( 479 470 ) . ( R . 3957 . ) WALTER EVERETT ( MENDENHALI MENDENHALL ) For Complainant ( Record Vol . 19 , pp . 3452-3529 ) Resides in San Juan mining region , Lake City , Colorado : 70 years of age . Most of his life has been spent in the neighborhood of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers . ( R . 3452 . . ) A rapid is rough water , more or less dangerous , filled with large rocks ; riffle is a milder type , water running rapidly , with some riffling over gravel beds , often shallow , seldom very deep . Rapids carry higher velocity and greater fall . ( R . 3452-3453 . ) In 1893 ( went vrent ) from Lake City , Colorado , by team . and wagon to Bluff on a prospecting trip . Started latter part of June . Hauled some lumber from Bluff to mouth of Comb Wash and built a boat ; it was 15 ft . . long , 3112 ft . wide ; draft , 8 inches ; loaded it with picks , shovels , supplies , and camp equipment and went downstream eight or ten miles . Trip made latter part of July . Does not remember the depth of water but recalls the Indians forded a good deal on horseback . ( R . , 3453 , 3455 . ) Had a raft he had built , 8 by 10 feet , with the boat and it ran on a submerged rock and they had to tear it up to get it out ; caught the pieces of lumber below as they came down . Did not rebuild the raft |