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Show Record 320 After we passed the mouth of the San Rafael, I handled the canoe, Mr. Moyer handed the other boat, and Mr. Moyer took soundings. 321 After we went on a bar we often found a deeper channel. The riffles between the town of Green River and the mouth of the San Rafael caused that stretch to be less easily navigated than the portion of the Green River between the San Rafael and the con-fluence and the Colorado River from the confluence up to Moab. 322 When I say in my report that the channel depths were from 3 to 5 feet and tapering into zero, I mean tapering to the point where a 323 bar was exposed. We did not go any distance above Moab by boat. 324 We fixed the head of navigation above Moab as at about the mouth of Sheep Creek, approximately 2 1/ 2 miles up from Moab. At that point there is a large amount of debris and rock, forming a very decided riffle and rapids, which we observed from a distance of 327 about 200 or 300 feet. At the place in my report where I wrote " Many exposed and submerged rocks", I would want to have the proper type of boat if I were to go through. With a proper type of boat I probably would not hesitate about going through all of this area. I would want the Colorado type of boat and would not 328 care for an open boat or canoe. Boatmen navigate waters like the Colorado between Castle Creek and Moab downstream, but I doubt if a boatman could possibly go up because of the rapids. My Plate 37 is a large scale survey showing three riffles, but there are some more in that area not shown, those shown being merely typical. 329 The smooth water shown on my plate could be navigated upstream by a power boat, but it could not go past this area ( indicating map) without a portage. 330 In response to a question by attorney for complainant, the witness testified that the facts described in his report con-tained in Exhibit 86 are the facts as he observed them. Whereupon defendant continued cross examination. I arrived at the Four Corners at 12 o'clock October 26 and located the Four Corners, running a line along the state line |
