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945 " A Well, it depends quite a bit on the width, as to what you can call low water; however, a minimum depth, I would say, was about six inches, maybe slightly over that in the immediate center of the stream." R. 2239. " Where the river is narrow the width is correspondingly - where the canyon is narrow the width is usually narrow and influences, of course, the depth of the water; in the more open stretch at low water the river is perhaps twenty or thirty feet wide at the most, and say six inches deep." R. 2239. At Clay Hill Crossing the stream bed is from three to four thousand feet wide and at times of flood the stream covers the entire bed, at other times it would cover possibly not more than twenty or thirty feet of the bed. He couldn't say definitely but has observed the river during low stages possibly four or five times but states that it is a continually fluctuating stream. R. 2239. Crossings were made on the river several times a day, as an average, and were ordinarily made by boat because he did not want to cross in the quicksand on foot. The boat was used mainly as a means of support in case he got into quicksand, which he did quite often, " and not to carry us across." " Q Just describe in a little more detail one of those typical crossings, - how you did it, how you loaded. " A At Clay Hill, my best example, perhaps, one of the party walked across the river; I didn't want to walk across, so we took the boat, and it meant in every case going part way across walking, pushing the boat; perhaps if the stretch of water was deep enough, get in the boat for a short stretch, and then walk the rest of the way." R. 2240. |
