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Show 315 Similar trouble was encountered in Stillwater Canyon, though not as much as in Labyrinth Canon. The party arrived at the mouth of the Green River September 18th and camped just above the junction. The junction was passed at an early hours September 16th and the survey commenced. Slow progress was made from that time on and does not remember encountering any difficulties between the mouth of the Green River and Cataract Canyon. It was in this stretch of river that the boats were separated and the out- board motor taken off the smaller boat. " Q. Just one minute, before we get too far away from this junction. How much of that period from September 11th to 16th that it took to get down to the junction was absorbed in time taken out for surveys and no on? " A. None whatever; that part had been surveyed." R. 826 " Q. Between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the Green River die you notice any difference between the location of the deep water as you saw it in 1921 and as you sew 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 |