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Show 656 MR FARNSWORTH: " Q. Following along, the next sentence ( reads): ' A trifle more water would have done away with them, or at least would have enabled us to ignore them completely.' That is true? " A. Yes, with our boats." R. 1579- 80. It would have taken considerably more water in Labyrinth Canyon to have removed the trouble caused by the sand- bars. R. 1580. From the foot of Cataract Canyon down past the Utah- Arizona State Line, he found lively rapids below the mouth of San Juan River on the first trip down. He recalls sand- bars existing for fifteen twenty miles below Dirty Devil River and sandstone ledges or shoals. R. 1581. They picked their way down the river as well as they could through these shoals, and it is his recollection that the ledges extend all the way across the river. He couldn't tell whether these ledges were uniform in height as they were under water and the water was so suddy, and there might be a channel through the ledges. R. 1582. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: " Q. All you can any is, on the line that you pursued you occasionally came upon a shoal? " A. Yes. You must remember, of course, our |
