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Show 979 year that the floods usually start in that country, in July or the latter part of July. R. 2325- 2326. At Grand Gulch, seventy- one miles from the junction of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, he noticed another change in the river from the time when he was there last. " I was telling the outfit about what a beautiful rapid we had at the mouth of Grand gulch; when we got to Grand gulch my rapid was gone; we had a little rapid there, but the great big boulders, fifteen or twenty feet square, had disappeared." R. 2326. Aside from the change at Indian Farms and at Grand Gulch, he does not remember any other great changes in the river, between 1895 and 1921. " Q What difficulty did you have in bringing Mr. Trimble's boats down? " A We portaged our loads at one rapid; if I remember rightly, just above Slick Horn canyon; the outfit was on shore, surveying down: I was bringing the boats down: I came to the rapid; the cook and the geologist was on down ahead; so we shouted to them, and they came back and helped carry the loads around; I run the boats over the rapid, and landed below and reloaded the boats and went on. " Then after we passed Grand gulch, then we began to have lots more trouble with the sand, because the river is quite wide below there; while it is still a canyon, it is a wider canyon than from Grand gulch up. " To explain to you the differences in the canyon, it is the same canyon, but a different canyon in this, from Grand gulch up it is in the lime, but at Grand gulch the line of the lime goes under and the big Navajo sandstone cliffs comes in to form the canyon walls. |
