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Show Record over the sand bar at that point. Farther up there were two rapids that were not bad, where we had to do the same thing. It was a low stage of water and I figured hat the river was then 2344 flowing about eight thousand second feet. Later I continued on down the Colorado River to Lee's Ferry and that was the last trip I ever made until this month. In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master, Mr. Loper testified as follows: At the Crossing of the Fathers Kane Creek Comes in from the west and you can get down to the river from the east. I noticed particularly how the Fathers could have crossed there; they must have gone up on the bar after they came down to the river and then crossed over to the mouth of Kane Creek. In low water I have an idea you can go across there quite easily, but of course we never got out and tried to cross there, and I never saw any one fording there. We had no trouble there at that time, 2346 but we had eighteen thousand second feet of water. exhibit 404 shows sand waves on the San Juan River at the foot of Honaker Trail. The sand waves curl backwards and the crest of the wave falls upstream. Mr. Loper continued his direct examination: 2347 In 1907 I started on a prospecting trip from Green River, Utah, leaving there September 19, with Charles Russell and Ed Monette. We had three steel boats, sixteen feet long, eighteen inches deep, and a four foot beam, without any motors. We made compartments in the boats ourselves and decked them over. They 2348 were keel boats. we struck a riffle immediately below the town of Green River, and I believe we struck gravel there, and then, as I recall, had no more trouble until we got below the mouth of the San Rafael, when we began to encounter the sane. When going through Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons, we had trouble at near-ly every channel crossing , where some one or all of us would run aground. One naturally expects to find the channel on the out- |
