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Show 3558 1580 69 Dellenbaugh- C MR. BLACKMAR: I don't know whether I did or not. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Following along, the next sentence ( reads): " A trifle more water would have done away with them, or at least would have enabled us to ignore them completely." That is true? A Yes, with our boats. Q That is also true up in Labyrinth canyon? A I don't know how it would be there. Q You can form judgment about that as well as you can about the other? A I think it would have taken considerably more water to fill the Labyrinth so we wouldn't have been bothered by the sand bars. In Glen canyon the river seemed to have more water, for some reason or other, than up above. Of course, it had the present Colorado or Grand river in addition to what we had in Labyrinth. Q There were the two rivers below? A Yes. Q With the San Rafael and any other streams that came in, also? A Yes. Q From the foot of Cataract canyon down to past the Utah- Arizona state line, you found no such impediment in the way of sandbars or otherwise as you found to navigation on the Green river in |