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Show 98 -- 94-- Slide, on the Colorado River, about 1.8 miles above the junction of the Green and Colorado Rivers. " The witness: [ Complainant's Exhibit No. 77] Photograph 147 and photograph 66. Photograph No. 6 [ sic 66] is a view upstream towards the slide on the left bank. No. 147 is another view of the slide, with a panorama camera upstream from the left bank. Plate No. 34 is a plane table survey of the Slide, on a scale of 500 feet to the inch, the same as the other." R. 210. The channel itself is approximately 100 feet across there at medium low water. The velocity of the water increases there very materially over what it is upstream and downstream. R. 210. In proceeding upstream on the Colorado River, Mr. Baldwin operated the boat with the stationary motor that was brought down from Road, and met him at the junction of the Green and Colorado Rivers.. Mr. Merril Norris assisted Mr. Baldwin, as also did Mr. Royer; " three men got into that boat together and carried practically all of the supplies." R. 210- 211. He and Sr. Blake operated the motorboat with the outboard motor. The large motorboat which towed the cance had a gear shift. " Q So that when the going got difficult you could put it in low and get power? " A They could stop the engine from stalling by putting it in low; yes sir." R. 211. Immediately above the Slide, the small boat " we were in", ran into a sandbar, " right at the head |
