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Show 147 -- 143-- " Q Now. " A Yes, sir. R. 314 [ R. 315] " Q You would still say that is was not true? " A You are talking about the stretch about the mouth of the San Rafael? " Q Yes. You spoke of another instability, or evidence of what you had denominated as such, up near the town of Greenriver. Do you remember that - where you spoke about a change of half a mile in the location of the river? " A I spoke about that, yes." R. 312- 316 He saw evidence of an old river bed a quarter of a mile away - " of a more recent channel bed" on the Green River. He saw where it used to empty into the Green river, and where it formerly left the Green River. That is a part of the change that has taken place as shown on [ Plate 3, Complainant's Exhibit No. 76]. " I saw a part of that channel." R. 316. In his judgment, the willows there are four or five years old, and would grow in a high water channel to the west of what is the main channel now. What he refers to is what was apparently, in 1883, the main channel. " Q The main channel. How can you tell that it was probably the main channel? " A Well, having a map that is supposed to show the channel then, and knowing where the channel is now, I have drawn what I thought was the change on it." R. 31 He does not know definitely whether the map made in 1883 was an actual survey, except what the map stated |