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Show 9 difficulty in locating the bars and riffles mentioned in the Army Report at the places therein indicated , notwithstanding the fact that there have been many floods and much high water since 1909 . ( R . 306 , Vol . 2 . ) The soundings recorded in my report merely represent the depths I happened to get as our boat travelled down stream . ( R . 319 , Vol . 2 . ) When I say in my report that the channel depths as we found them were from three to five feet and tapering to zero , I mean tapering to the point where a bar was exposed . ( R . 322 , Vol . 2 . ) Over a period covered by ( long-term longterm ) records there has never been a time when the Green River was dry , and regardless of where the channel lies from year to year , the amount of water would average more or less the ( same saine ) at each corresponding month in the year . The large flat ( bot- bot ) tom scow of the Moab Garage Company has been down the river during the periods of the year when weather conditions are the same as when I wfis there and they could go down the Colorado and back and could probably go up and down the Green River between the mouth of the San Rafael and its mouth with that boat ( R . 348 , Vol . 2 . ) ( I 1 ) was operating the canoe , and while I got stuck , the canoe would always have got through if I had known enough to find the channel . ( R . 349 , Vol . 2 . ) 1 arrived at the Four Corners ( the common corner ( be- be ) tween the states of Colorado , New Mexico , Arizona and Utah ) at noon on October 26 ; located the Four Corners ; ran a line along the state line between Utah and Colorado north to the rim of the San Juan river ; that afternoon and the next day I made Plate ( 1 I ) of Exhibit , my time being consumed in making that map . I then drove to Shiprock , New Mexico , my entire stay on the San Juan River being from 12 ( o'clock oclock ) noon on one day until 3 : 30 p . m . next day , and all of my time being spent in making the map and taking photographs and cross sections at that point . I was never at any point on the San Juan River either before or after that visit , and I recall my statement that in order to make an intelligent examination of a river it is necessary to examine its tributaries and its entire basin . ( R . 330-2 , Vol . 2 . ) Mr . ( Hoyt's Hoyts ) trip on the Green River down to the head of Cataract Canyon and thence up to Moab is his only ( ex- ex ) perience on either of the rivers here involved , ( with Nvith ) the exception of the day he spent at the Four Corners . |
