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Show 897 especially at the wide places across the river where the river would widen out, it was full of low bars, with a shifting continually from day to day; we never found the same conditions on these low bars at any one time, or were able to follow any established course in navigating the river. We had to pick a channel each time, or a route, through the bars, each time, and it varied. " Q. While you were on the river, what observation did you make, if any with reference to the effect of the change in the stage of the water upon the sandbars? " A. Why, we had no marked changes with the exception of this one flood down the Grand, we had no marked changes in the stages at any time, but the bars changed nevertheless, shifted." R. 2119- 2120. When he returned from the junction after completing the survey, he came right on up, and it took him four or five days to make the trip up stream. He believes it also took five days when they brought the drilling equipment up the river. R. 2120- 2121. Cross Examination. ( R. Vol. 11., pp. R. 2121- 2144.) The Mr. Wimmer he mentioned in his testimony, is Mr. T. G. Wimmer, who is sitting in the court room. R. 2121. He has had no conference with Mr. Wimmer; and he doesn't know whether or not Captain Yokey was in Denver. R. 2122. His drill outfit consisted of a Sullivan type H drill engine, with its attendant boiler, rods, casing and tool equipment. R. 2122. |