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Show 735 on the stage of the water, wouldn't call these rapids, but little steep places where the shallow water pitches off and becomes somewhat broken, but no rapids to any great extent; the only rapid in the one at Anted crock: that is a little bit unquiet. " Q. What distinction do you make between rapids and riffles? " A. Well, I would may that you couldn't have a rapid with lose then - oh, a fall of six or eight feet, in, say, thirty or forty, too." R. 1768- 1769. He met Bert Loper in Glen Canyon, not on the first trip, but on his second trip in 1906. R. 1769. In the sections of Glen Canyon where he was making his observations regarding the placer mining operations they didn't need to have a trail as wherever there was a flood plane one could walk on that without let or hindrance, except in a few places where the willows were too thick. R. 1770- 1771. " BY THE SPECIAL MARTER: " Q. What kind of placer apparatus did they have in there? " A. At that time, your Honor? " Q. Rockers and cradles? " A. That is all. " Q. How did they take them down the river, in boats, or carry them down along the bank? " A. I think they carried them down along the bank, sir, I mean the lumber for the purpose of making sluices and |