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Show 159 -- 155-- The amount of water in the channels, regardless of where they lie from year to year, will average more or less the same in each corresponding month of the year. R. 348. Other than the type of boats used by the witness. the large flat- bottom scow of the Moab Garage Company has been up and down portions of the Colorado River, during the same periods of the year when the water conditions were the same as when witness boated. R. 348. From his observations, a canoe could be taken down the rivers at all times of the year. The canoe which he operated drew only three or four inches of water. R. 348- 349. In general, the width of the Green River through the canyon is from 1200 the 1500 feet. The bed of the Colorado River between the rock walls is probably wider. The Colorado is a larger stream than the Green, carrying about 25 percent more water, and therefore in general the volume of water in the Colorado is greater than in the Green. R. 349- 350. The slope of the Colorado River bed is less than that of the Green, and although the volume was greater in the Colorado at the time witness was there, the width of the stream was greater and the depth of water in the two streams was about the same; the general condition of the two were not materially different. R. 349- 350 The word " canyon" as used by witness indicates the entire valley below the Colorado River plateau. He referred to the canyon as being the rim that could be seen from a boat on the water, which would be like the |
