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Show Prommel- D 1000 However, that was not the road of last resistance. In the matter of locating a wild- cat well in what was at that time considered very wild- cat country, we had to take into consideration from a consulting standpoint to lower so much an possible all coats in connection with the work. We had, during our survey work, consulted United States Water Supply paper, bulletin No. 335 and 336, which Colorado river as well as profile surveys. We used these maps in order to guide our work through the country. We fitted together the course of the river -- the maps were similar to these never maps, so that we had a trip map of the course of the Colorado river from Moab down to Indian creek. We had the north direction on the maps we were carrying our traverse in, and checked back and forth the traverse as against the map of survey of the river. From the profile we obtained the information that the maximum fall of the river in that distance per mile was 1.5 feet. This suggested to me, based on prior experience in Old Mexico in the Balsas river, that it might be possible to ship machinery down the river, especially during high water stages. We had noticed, of course, during our work, and had had during the work considerable experience with sandbars 2970 |
