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Show Record In response to a question from the Special Master, Mr. Blackmar stated that the Army Engineers made a survey of the river to escertain whether or not it was subject to navigation and made a report. Mr. Collins further stated that the purpose of the Army Engineers' survey was to see whether the improvement of the river for navigation was justified. 160 Resuming his direct examination, the witness continued: I used the surveys of the Army Engineers for the purpose of determining whether the river channel was permanent or shifting in character and found that it was very shifting. The next bar I came to was the Mohre bar and riffle located three- 161 quarters of a mile downstream from the town of Green River. My survey of that bar disclosed that the water was all confined in a single channel, whereas in 1909, according to the Army survey, 162 there were two channels, the river being split by an island. The next bar I examined was located one and a half miles below Green River town and is called the Two Mile bar and riffle. The conditions as I found them were very nearly the same as when the Army 163 survey was made in 1909. The next bar surveyed by me was the Butterfly bar located some one and a half or two miles below Green River. A comparison between my survey and that of the Army Engineers in 1909 indicates that the west channel at this point has increased materially in width, as has also the east chan-nel since 1909. The next bar surveyed by me is the Auger, located 164 four and a half miles below Green River. Conditions there are very much the same as in 1909. The Farrer bar, located about five miles below the town of Green River is in about the same position as in 165 1909. The river is confined in general between rock walls, so that the limits within which it can wander are limited by the rock walls. 166 The Cable bar and riffle shown on Plate 16 cannot be compared by me with the Army Engineers' survey. Apparently it was not there then as no reference was made to it in the Army report. The next bar is a crossing bar at a point 109 miles below the mouth of the river, - 24- |