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Show Record words you have to hunt for the channel, particularly where the river crosses when the water is at a lower stage or when there are rains in the mountains. Bert Loper, resuming his direct examination, testified as follows: 2369 Every change in the volume of the river brings about a rearrangement of the channel and sand bars. I have seen the channel change from one side to the other there in front of my cabin at Red Canyon during the night, different stages of water making a different river. While at Red Canyon I always got my supplies from Hite, to which point they were brought overland. I have observed some sand waves on the Colorado River after or during a summer flood. I have seen good- sized sand waves up as far as 2370 Hite but they are quite rare up there as compared with the river below the San Juan. In 1911 I made a trip with Mr. Seaboldt and George Meiss from Hite to Lee's Ferry, leaving Hite in December with an eighteen foot flat bottom boat having a beam of bout 2371 fifty- two inches and a six inch draft. Mr. Seaboldt was in search of information as to placer mining. One night we camped about a mile above Warm Creek and next morning heard the men working on a steamboat that they built there. In making that trip to Lee's Ferry we encountered only the usual sand bars. We run on a rock in Trachyte Rapid and at Shock Rapid, and in going through the middle channel at Shock Rapid we hit a gravel reef, but with 2372 no serious results. In 1921 I saw the nose of the steamboat I refer to, which was called to C. H. Spencer, sticking out of the sand at Lee's Ferry. On my trip with Seaboldt our boat was not equipped with any motor. This trip to Lee's Ferry with Seaboldt was made in December, 1911. We were at Lee's Ferry during Christmas and were delayed there until about February 1 because the river was gorged with ice. Then we came back upstream with 2372 our boat, dragging it with a rope. We arrived at Hite about the the 17th or 18th of February and left Lee's Ferry on January 31. |