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Show 6025 470 Seitz - D 4028 Q Have you been on any of the other sections of either the Green or the Colorado? A No, sir. Q Mr. Seitz, assuming that while you were doing your work on one of these rivers, you would complete the days work and find the river at a certain elevation, and during the night, say, there is a rise of 20 or 30 feet in the river, just how do you continue that work the next day, and how is it tied into the previous survey? Do you get my point? A Yes, I get your point. But I never had a rise of that much. By The Special M aster: Q Well, take any rise; do not confine it to that. A On the Colorado River, the greatest rise I can remember was about one foot. For the next day or two I applied a constant to take care of that rise, gradually dimi-nishing as I went downstream, until I got back to my little camp. Q What do you mean by " constant"? A Well, for instance, when we tied up and quit work, at night I would leave it up on the bank far removed from the water, so that there would be no chance of that point being dis-turbed. In the morning, when we started work again, I would take another water reading, and in that way determine whether the river had gone up or down. If it had risen a foot, I |
