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Show 14 - 11- might be interesting to say that, at one point - and this was typical - I saw a place where I wanted to run ashore, and I gave the signal, but it was so swift that we were not able to get ashore there at all, but landed perhaps a quarter of a mile below." R. 51- 52. This was at a point called Twin Alcove; so named by Powell. It is in Labyrinth or Stillwater Canyon. The river was excessively muddy. It contained so much sand and silt that " when we were compelled to drink it, as we sometimes were, our canteens would get full of dirt, and we would let it cattle a few minutes in the canteen, and then drink it down hurriedly, and we had trouble to keep our teeth from gritting until the sand had washed out of our months. Q. In this stretch of the river, did you experience any contact with waves? A. Except in this one place, as I described before, where the river swept up one side of the banks and was then pushed diagonally across to the other side." R. 52 He encountered no holes in the river up there. R. 52. He identifies Complainant's Exhibit No. 25, which is a photograph made 3 1/ 2 miles below the junction of the two rivers. " That would be about a mile above Cataract Canyon, the first riffle, the first rapid." 53. He identifies Complainant's Exhibit No. 26, which " is a photograph of what we call Rapids No. 1, in Cataract Canyon, the first rapids noted by the Government, on the Geological Survey maps. R53. |
