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Show Record plainan't Exhibit 633 is a letter signed by me which I wrote to Mr. Ryan on June 17, 1929. ( Said exhibit was received in evidence.) Edwin T. Wolverton testified on redirect examination as follows: 5417 I mean by the statement in my letter, Complainant's Exhibit No. 633, that the rivers indicated are not navigable on a commercial basis; but, under stress of necessity, certain stretches may be negotiated with light draft boats of certain types; that under present conditions of the river, unimproved as it is, we can not compete with the trucks in carrying freight between Green River and Moab or with the railroad and buses, and we cannot thus 5418 compete and carry passengers at the same price. In 1910 I saw a fall of many thousand tons of rock at a point ten or twelve miles below the town of Green River, and I have also seen a large amount of rock fall at and just below the junction of the Green and Colo- Rivers. Those two occasions are the only occasions when I rado Rivers. Those two occasions are the only occasions when I ever knew of rock falling in the river. The fall of rock that I observed about twelve miles below Green River was on the east side of the river, when the face of a cliff broke off and fell down. At the other place where I saw rock fall at the junction of the 5419 rivers, I do not think the rock fell into the river but am not sure about that. I have been on foot along the bank of the river through 5420 Cataract Canyon to the mouth of the Dirty Devil River. At one place, about ten miles below the first cataract, and at another place, possibly twenty miles below the first cataract where the canyon is very narrow, we were compelled to make a detour. You can always get along the bank of the river there because there is a little talus that is not disturbed lying along the stream I have been to the Colorado River up near the Colorado 5421 line and have seen that stretch. I have also been to the mouth of 822 |