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Show Galloway- D 1068 Q Salt Lake City? A Yes. Q Did you leave your boat down there that time? A Yes. Q On those various prospecting trips when you were down there, placer mining or prospecting for placer mines, did you have an opportunity to observe the Colorado river in that stretch between the lower and of the cataracts and Lee's Ferry with reference to sandbars, and so forth? A Oh, yes; there is some difficulty along there in different places. Q Just tell me about it. A It is about the same as it is above, only you have got move water, is the only difference I saw; however, you have the same difficulties. why it is, I don't know. It is because, I guess, the river is wider, wherever it can be wide. Of course, it is boxed in places, you know. Then another thing, you have difficulties in there, twisting currents. Q That is something we haven't had before. What do you mean by twisting current? A Regular whirlpool proposition. Q That occurs quite frequently? A Oh, no. But in sharp bends, where the river beds against a ledge, the water seems to crowd the ledge hard, and maybe it 3040 |
