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Show Kolb- D 827 On our former trip we lost a good deal of time making pictures, but this was continuous navigation. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the Green river did you notice any difference between the location of the deep water as you saw it in 1921 and as you saw it in 1911? A In a few cases we would remark, my brother and myself, that it formerly had a channel at that point, and sometimes that would be sticking far above the water, and it would be a new channel. The river had a permanent bed for high water, and after the water had receded it would not be on that side of the river at all. Q What do you mean by a permanent bed for high water? A I mean it is a channel where nothing grows, where there is no vegetation, nothing but sand, and every evidence that the high water would fill that bed from bank to bank, and then when it recedes picks out sometimes a channel in the very middle, with two islands, one on either side. Sometimes there would be an island with just a very shallow between, and a deeper channel on the other side. It had a chance up in Labyrinth canyon to meander, to work from side to side considerably, and there was every evidence of shifting channels there. We always expected to find deep water if there were short loops or turns in the river close to the outside of the 2797 |