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Show 3748 Stone- D 1769 A yes. Q Just tell me about it with particular reference to sandbars, if any, and rapids and riffles. A We grounded several times on the way down on shallows, and tow or three times had to get out in the water and work the boat over the bars. Q Did you encounter any rapids or riffles? A Yes, there are quite a number of riffles, depending on the stage of the water, wouldn't call them rapids, but little steep laces where the shallow water pitches off and becomes somewhat broken, but no rapids to any great extent; the only rapid is the one at Aztec creek; that is a little bit unquiet. Q What distinction do you make between rapids and riffles? A Well, I would say that you couldn't have a rapid with less than -- oh, a fall of six or eight feet, in, say, thirty or forty, and then you would have to have a certain volume of water, too. Q While you were in the canyon did you make the acquaintance of a man named Bert Loper? A yes sir. Q What was he doing in there? A I got acquainted with him in 1909, on our second trip. |