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Show Prommel- RD 1033 bed? A Yes sir. Q Just tell us what you found there, what you saw. A Well, we had considerable trouble during some of the crossings; we had to carry a survey line across the river at one location, and we went John Shafer over with the rod and the boat; he was alone in the boat; he tied the boat on the bank of the river and went up to the mesa where he was going to give us the turning point. While he was going up towards the turning point we heard splashing noises along the river, and we saw the bank was caving, the river was cutting into the banks, and it would cave off big chunks of sand into the river, and we also noticed that is was caving right where this man had tied his boat. The place looked all right when he tied it there; willows were growing there; but a big chunk of sand caved into the boat and partly sank the boat. We tried to holler to Frank Shafer, but he was out of reach of sound, and we tried to run around -- where we was standing we were about one hundred feet above the river-- to attract his attention, but we couldn't get his attention, so the best thing we could do was to let him hold up the survey rod and shoot him in and wave him down so he could return to the river. In the meantime, more sand has caved into the river, 3004 |