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Show 5818 Howard - X 3818 265 A At Goodridge; and in order to give me figures com-parable with these figures, I used those figures. Mr. Love has some figures from silt samples which show tremendously larger quantities-- Q What I am trying to get at is, what months did you A I took the quantity May to September, and took the mean discharge for the year, ti compute the yearly lead; for my yearly load is based on those two factors. Q I take it you are not familiar with the river except for the purpose of getting silt? A That is all. Q What I want to get at, them, is this: I note in your water Supply Paper No. 636- A that you have got four notation of silt on the San Juan, with immense variations in the different months; thus, in February, the 19th to 26th, you have a figure of 11,800; February, the 19th to 26th, and then in June, 2,510. How do you get at a method of com-putting a yearly average with such variations from the month of March to the month of June, for instance? |