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Show Record fairly safe in following the outside bend, you occasionally run on to a bar in the outer channel on both the Green and Colorado River. I think the same thing is ordinarily true on any river. On Sunday, October 21, the big boat was stuck at Mile 31.2 and it took us half an hour to get both boats across a bar between Miles 33 and 34. The depth of the channel is more or less uniform in all of the outside bends and I would say this depth was from three to 225 four feet at the time I made this trip. I was on the Colorado River between October 18 and October 25. The flow on October 18 was 4520 second feet; on October 19, 4300 second feet; on October 20, 4090 second feet; on the 21st, 3820 second feet; on the 22nd, 3770 second feet; on the 23rd, 3650 second feet; and on the 24th, 2690. By the Special Master: " Well, that was not very far from normal gauge." 226 On the straight stretches the depth was anywhere between one and two feet at crossing bars or at points approaching a cross- 227 ing bar where our boats were stuck. The motor- boat was stuck at 228 about Mile 43.7, and both boats were stuck at Mile 46.3. We took soundings on our sixteen mile trip of October 21, which was nothing more than putting our oar over the side, and as long as the depth was less than three feet, one knows that he is approaching a crossing bar and starts looking for deep water if he can find it. On October 22 we stopped at the John L. Shafer Well No. 1- A, at 229 about Mile 48.5. We observed crossing bars and at Mile 50.2 both boats had lots of trouble and delayed us about half an hour, the big boat being stuck at that point. From that point to the boat dock at Moab I observed the crossing bars indicated on the exhibit. The large motor- boat was stuck at different points, on one occasion the delay being for about a quarter of an hour. We had no trouble 231 at the mouth of Mill Creek. Below the mouth of Mill Creek, on the Colorado, I observed no land that seems capable of agricultural use. Between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the |
