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Show 3701 Clark- D 1723 A Why, no, I can't: because at that time I didn't know just exactly where the Crossing of the Fathers was. Q Just give me the details of that trip? A Well -- Q By the way, before you started did you look up the gauge reading at Lees Ferry? A No sir. Q From your experience with gauge readings there, could you give the approximately stream flow on the day that you went up? A I would say that it was in the neighborhood of about forty thousand second feet. Q All right, now, just tell me the details of that trip up. A Well, we left Lees Ferry in the morning, I should say in the neighborhood of six o'clock, and we didn't have any difficulties until we got about four miles above Lees Ferry, and the channel there where the water is going through this channel, where the water is deep enough to take a boat, is so swift we had quite a bit of difficulty getting through this channel. Q Just how did you negotiate the channel? A The way we negotiated it, we kept in as close to the shore as we could, and this man that was with me had in oar, or pole this water where he could, shallow enough, so he could |