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Show 986 " BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q Mr. Loper, at places on the San Juan river where you get curves, - where there are curves in the river, do you get a bar? " A Your bar invariably is on the inside bend of the river; the velocity of the water will carry it to the outside of the bend. " If you ever expect to find a channel anywhere at any time, it is on the outside of a short bend; it is through the velocity, the weight of that water will carry it to the outside; there you expect to find the channel, but immediately when that becomes straight or starts to make a reverse bend, between these two bends you have a crossing, it is bound to cross from the outside of this turn to the outside of the next one, which causes it to cross over; it flattens out and spreads all over the river." R. 2336. He did not see any boats on the San Juan River during the year 1921 while he was there. R. 2336. There was no ferry boat at Mexican Hat. ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2337). After reaching the mouth of the San Juan on the 1921 trip the trip continued down to Lees Ferry, but the survey ended at West Canyon. After leaving the mouth of the San Juan River he took the cook, and Mr. Allen, the recorder, down to Lees Ferry, a distance of seventy miles, and thence to Flagstaff, Arizona, where he obtained a new cook and rod man and brought them back. ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2340). " Q What kind of boat did you use to go to Lees Ferry? " A One of the regular boats. I was told I said we had three boats. I would like to correct that; we only had two boats through the San Juan. If I said three boats, I only |