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1016 without being swamped." R. 2403- 2404. This sand wave condition continued for a good ways, down to the mouth of Rock Creek, until we came to the mouth of Navajo Creek. " There we ran into some very serious waves again. But they didn't last so long as the San Juan waves did." R. 2404. From the San Juan River down, the Colorado River is a different stream because the San Juan carries considerably more sand than does the Colorado, but no trouble was encountered except with sand waves. R. 2404. " Q In all the time you have been familiar with Glen Canyon in the about Hite. Tickaboo, and Good Hope bar, have you noticed any physical changes either of the bank or in the river?" ( Note: Discussion by counsel, R. Vol. 13, pp. 2405). " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q Have you noticed any changes on these bars that Mr. Blackmar speaks of, other than changes you have already testified to? " A The big change is below the San Juan; that is the big change. My two trips were twenty- two years apart. My first trip was in 1907 and 1908; the last one, this year; - twenty- one years and something. " The time I made the trip up the river in 1908, in February, there was no place in Glen canyon that you couldn't walk along one side or the other of the river, but today there are numberous places where the river extends from wall rock to wall rock; the bars or the bottoms have entirely disappeared. " While I am not an expert, I would say there are five thousand acres of land that are gone out of Glen canyon." R. 2405- 2406. |
