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Show 496 water in spots, and the surface of the water indicated clearly that others were below the surface. " As compared to a survey of the riffle that had been made in 1909, the river had moved substantially its entire width. " R. 1250. At the time of his inspection the river was infringing on the point between Salaratus Wash, which enters the river just above that riffle, and the river proper. " The point was caving off as witnessed by the fact that a number of trees had been undermined and were falling, or had fallen into the river, forming a series of snags along that bank. The indications were that the caving was still going on, and that in the course of caving it was excavating, or we- burying, as it is sometimes terned there, snags and boulders. " R. 1251- 1252. He made no inspection of the river bed at Greenriver, " as I had no boat there. So far as the charges in the channel are concerned, the only map I had was this 1809 survey, which has been discussed before, and the change that I noted previously. " R. 1252. From Greenriver he went " to Hanksville by automobile, where we stayed for perhaps thirty- six hours; thence by automobile to the upper portion of North wash, and at that point we were eventually overtaken by a wagon. " R. 1252. The road from Greenriver to Hanksville, " is a track across the desert. Sometimes no track; we actually had to break substantially a fresh track through among ourselves, |