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Show 5566 Hite - D 3574 16 A well, the river during these months as a rule is Very muddy, from the rains, etc., that came down from the little lateral canyons, and so on; sometimes it was very low, and at other times it was a pretty good stage of water. There was no definite, set stage of water that I can recall at that particular to it than at any other time of the year, as I recall it now. Q What effect did the rising and failing water have upon sandbars? A Well, it would destroy a sandbar one day and build one up in another place; you never know just exactly where the current was going to be; sometimes in a few hours any little eddy or obstruction that would from wold immediately start to settle and deposit this silt and the bar would form; anything that would take that out it would crumble and set very fast; and you would have a channel in a shirt time. Q You say " any little obstruction". What might that obstruction be? A Well, a large tree would start to set -- anything that would make a swirl or an eddy. Q What about the water in September and October? |