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Show 7428 Wolverton- C 5407 A Well, after a flood comes in from one of the side canyons, in a few days it is gone, you don't find it any more, you don't know where that debris has gone, unless perhaps, as in the case of Spring canyon, where the river is wide, just below the mouth of Spring canyon the river is twelve to fifteen hundred feet wide, and there frequently the water will spread sand sometimes nearly across the river. Q Are you familiar with the engineering term know as crossing bar? Are you familiar with that term? A I beg your pardon? Q Crossing bar. Do you ever use the word " crossing bar"? Do you know what it means? A No. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Maybe I can get at it this way. On the bends of the river do you find the deepest water on the concave or the convex side of the turn? A It is always on the outside. Q On the outside? A Yes, excepting where rock has fallen off of a cliff; river the channel will be diverted some what. Q When you get beyond that curve, beyond a curve, then does the channel of the river pass over to the other side? A In case there is an obstruction it diverts the channel, |