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Show Record changes a little bit occasionally at Moab. I remember where Court House Creek and Mill Creek come in. They will bring in 2857 great bars of sand and driftwood, which will back the river up at those points and maybe cause it to break around one way or the other, at times almost putting a dam of a small kind across the river. It is my understanding that there are between eighteen hundred and two thousand acres of cultivated land in Moab Valley for which water is obtained from Mill Creek and Pack Creek, which empties into Mill Creek. These streams run all the year round. On account of using the water of those streams for irrigation, there are some periods of the year when there is very little water below the ranches except such as seeps through and runs into the 2858 creek. Sometimes the Colorado River is ten or fifteen feet deep for quite a distance across and at other times during the dry season it is not so deep. When I was a boy I have waded the Colorado River and have seen cattle driven across, although I don't think I ever saw cattle taken across when it was not necessary to swim 2859 them. I have been two or three miles downstream in row boats and have noticed no change in channel over that stretch. I have made one round trip to No. 1 Well and another down trip and several short picnic trips with people either up or down the river. I made a trip down to Well No. 1 on December 9, 1925, which was the 2860 day after that well came in. In April of the previous year I made a round trip down to that well, on which occasion we made the down trip in two and a half or three hours, ate lunch there, and remained for an hour or so and then came back up to Moab, arriving at Moab about seven o'clock. We encountered no sandbars on that trip. On the trip I took in December, 1925, we were heavily loaded 2861 and stuck on a sand bar going down at about noon. They churned the wheel trying to go forward and back up, but after a few tries said, " Well, it's dinner time anyway, we will cook dinner". Dinner was cooked and while we were eating the boat floated off, the 381 |
