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Show 421 like - after you get up towards Greenriver City for forty or fifty miles - nothing like it is on the Grand River; more riffles, swifter water." R. 1077- 1080. " Q. Would you say from the San Rafael, mouth of the San Rafael, down to the mouth of the Green River and from the mouth of the Green River and the Colorado up to Shafer well No. 1, those conditions on the rivers - those sections of the rivers I have referred to with respect to navigation are substantially the same as the condition between Shafer well No. 1 and Moab?" R. 1080. " A. I will say this, there is more water on the Green River; that probably would give a fellow a little better advantage. - than there is on the Grand River in the fall of the year. " The condition of the bed of the river, as I see it, I don't believe there is a great deal of difference. There is more water on the Green River." " I expect the navigation up -- I have never tried it -- would be a little easier," R. 1080. ( Testimony ordered Stricken R. 1080.) He doesn't particularly mind going up the Colorado River from the mouth of the Green, but it is hard work. On the occasion upon which he left his boat at Lockhart and walked to Shafer No. 1 well, then went to Moab on the power boat, he was in a hurry to get home as quickly as he could. On his second trip or visit, in that section, he was on a trapping expedition but he did not know for sure that the |