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Show 4218 Allen- D 2239 Q Tell me about the low water in the San Juan river, how low it got, and so forth. A Well, it depends quite a bit on the width, as to what you can call low water; however, a minimum depth, I would say, was about six inches, maybe slightly over that in the immediate center of the stream. Q Suppose you amplify that a little bit as to what you mean by the location. A Where the river is narrow the width is correspondingly -- where the canyon is narrow the width is usually narrow and influences, of course, the depth of the water; in the more open stretch at low water the river is perhaps twenty or thirty feet wide at the most, and say six inches deep. Q In these wide places did you have occasion to observe it on several different occasions when it was that low? A ordinary channel was about three or four thousand feet, perhaps, at times of flood it covered the complete channel, at other times it wouldn't be over twenty or thirty feet wide. Q What I meant is, on the low water, how often did you observe low water? A I couldn't say definitely,-- four or five times, perhaps; it is a continually fluctuating stream. Q In the course of your trip did you have occasion to cross and re- cross the river? |
