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Show 68 -- 68-- following a rain. The hydrograph chart indicated ( Complainant's Exhibit No. 79) for Lees Ferry gauging station, that there was a maximum of 180,000 second- feet at that station in 1921. " Some of these records are, unfortunately, incomplete, the gauging station not being maintained on all of them during some of the years all of the year. For instance, this river record came from Greenriver; and we had no record at the San Juan or at Bluff during that year." R. 156. The state of New Mexico maintains a gauging station at Shiprock. The Government uses those records there to lengthen out the records at the Bluff station. " By the Special Master: " Q Is the same condition true of the Colorado as of the Rio Grands, that the rises in May and June are due to snows, and those in August and September to rains? " A I think so, yes, sir." R. 156. " Starting at Greenriver, Utah, we had the 16 foot boat - 16 foot boat, with 4- foot beam, and the boat was 11/ 2 foot deep, equipped for use with an outboard motor." R. 157. The boat drew about 12" or 13" of water loaded with two men in it. The first bar he came to is the bar known as Brown's Riffle, of which he made a plane table survey, including the channel conditions of the Green River, and the mouth of the Saleratus Wash. R. 157- 158. " Q A plane table survey is a survey that is [ in] common use and is accurate the same as any other method. " A Practically all of the surveys made by the |