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Show Record 2249 have no pictures of the San Juan at real low water. I recall the occasion testified to by me on direct examination when one member of our party walked across the river, that was at Clay Hill Crossing and he decided that he could walk across and wanted to try it. Another man directly behind him almost went up to his waist in quicksand; you couldn't see the bottom of the river or anything below the surface, and I only know that this 2250 man went down is quicksand from what he told me. The lowest water on the San Juan to which I have referred was in the stretch below Spencer's camp, between that and Piute Creek. That was 2251 about a seventeen mile stretch. I have pictures taken through that seventeen miles, but they were not taken at the time when I 2252- 2253 saw the low water there. When I left the party Messrs. Christensen and Loper rode with me to Lee's Ferry in one boat, consuming a day and half on that journey. We left in the early morning of one day and arrived at Lee's Ferry next day about noon. We thus made sixty- eight miles in a day and a half rowing downstream all the time. Robert N. Allen testified on redirect examination as follows: I didn't take any pictures of the stream at low water because at that time I wasn't particularly interested in low water. There were no great floods on the San Juan while I was there, but at Piute Farms the river was too high to venture on it with 2254 boats. The sand bars changed all the time and you couldn't count on one being in the same place at any time. In response to question propounded by the Special Master Mr. Allen testified that the sand bars varied from hour to hour in location and the stream would sometimes vary five of six feet in a day. David E. Rust testified for complainant of direct examination as follows: I am 55 years old and live at Provo, Utah, I crossed the |
