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Show 555 second, I made it a point to find out the naviga-bility of the stream as far as to the mouth of Indian creek, because we and acreage which we had hoped to drill in that territory. Those were my instructions." R. 1353 From mile post two [ above the confluence of the two rivers] " we had no trouble down [ to] Cataract Canyon. From the headwaters of the Cataract Canyon we turned around and went up, back up to the confluence and up the Green river." R. 1353. " We had sandbars that we encountered at eleven places on the Green river. If you wish, I can give those. " Q Yes, let's have these. " A 2,4,14,18,20,23,24,26,27,30, and 31. " At about mile post 18 1/ 2 we encountered such swift water that it took us approximately an hour and forty-five minutes to go up stream a distance of half a mile; and again at 19 1/ 2, mile post 19 1/ 2, we encountered a very high stream velocity, so we had a hard time; it was especially so because of the fact that we were forced in against the cliff, and had to go back down stream and fight up the stream again; no chance of towing of operating in any way, although we had two poles on the boat which were twenty feet long." R. 1354. Both the Colorado and Green Rivers were full of flow ice the whole time during the trip and the waters were too cold to get overboard and push [ the boats |
