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Show Record ledge on which Major Stanton's boat had trouble, has narrow breaks in it at places. I don't know how far those breaks go or how long they extend up and down the river. You find an open place and stop across them. I do not know whether the cracks in the ledge continue up and down the river. In some places in those cracks 3328 an oar would go down four or five feet. The cracks that I could stop over would be two or three feet wide. At that point the entire river spreads out, and I could not find any channel through there. Outside of the little narrow ( cracks) the meximum depth of the river at that place was two feet, and at that point the river was probably five hundred feet wide, with a nearly uniform depth of two feet. After you got out forty or fifty feet from either side I didn't fine much difference in depths in wading the 3329 water across there, and through that space I would say that the depth of the river at that time wan about two feet. That was at a very low stage of water. Frank Bennett testified on redirect examination as follows: Aside from high water in the spring we would generally get floods from cloudbursts in July or August; three or four of those floods came from the San Rafael. We could generally tell 3240 from the color of the water where they came from. Sometimes these storms would extend up until September and October; I think the heaviest storm we ever had there was about September 10. After those storms the sand bars would sometimes change and at other times would not change. After floods they may change a little at some places and at others they don't change. In the upper part of the river it is principally gravel and the channel doesn't shift much there, whereas below the channel shifts. Where we were working it is more gravel and we drilled gravel nearly all the time. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master, Frank Bennett testified as follows: |