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Show 294 ( Discussion by Counsel and Special Master. R. 771- 778.) He doesn't just remember the length of Red Canyon and it might be shorter than what he said it was. They lined one boat at two different places in the canyon and it was one place called Ashley Falls, in the state of Utah, where there was a very narrow channel and they had extremely low water. This is the only paint outside of the two rapids that he recalls. He only remembered the places where he had a little difficulty. The river in that country averaged about one hundred fifty feet wide in low water and it was comparatively shallow. Gravel from the shores had gradually deepened to the center and he had great difficulty with their boats dragging on the rocks on account of extremely low water. They came into quiet water in Brown's Park that is in Utah and the river changes its direction and goes directly east and somewhere above Lodore Post Offices enters Colorado. R. 778- 779. The canyon of Lodore is in Colorado and it makes a loop and comes back into Utah again, and after going into Whirlpool Canyon and Split Mountain Canyon; it is very close, he believes, to Utah or Colorado. It rained at Lodore Canyon and they had a six foot rise in the river and the Yampa River came in and that added considerable water and the river conditions were different from that time on. They were riding on the crest of the flood. " We got through without any mishap, but we considered ourselves lucky. That is true of all rapid running." R. 780. It was not necessary to line the boats at Split Mountain |