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Show Record 3327 on the Green River. I have been part way up the Green River, and the water runs so slow in that stream that it makes very little difference whether you are going up or down, whereas on the Colorado River it is harder work going upstream because of the swift water. It is harder on the Colorado river in the 3331 sense that you need more energy to make progress. If I had unlimited power, I would say from my experience that the difficulties of navigating upstream on the Green River would be greater than on the lower Colorado. 3332 On the occasion of the ice gorge incident I mentioned on my direct examination, we took the supplies that we rescued on down the river to the Klondyke Bar in two boats. I accompanied the boats downstream as far as Hole- in- the- Rock, where I left the party and later met the two boats with their cargo at the Klondyke Bar, where we unloaded them. While working at the Klondyke Bar I had maybe four or five boats, and I went back up and made another trip down with a twenty- four foot boat. After we quit 3333 working on that bar I didn't go back upstream with our boats but left the river and later came back to the Klondyke Bar in the fall of the year and used the boats I had used there during the season before. On the last mentioned occasion I remained at the Klondyke Bar two or three months and then went back up the river via Tickaboo Bar and Hite and thence to Richfield. I went down the river from Hite to the New Year Bar, but didn't take my boats or supplies 3334 with me, but left those boats there and went boats and came down with some new boats. 3335 While there I probably used and operated fifty different boats altogether. It is generally true that any changes that occur in the channel of the Colorado River occur while the river is riding and setting during the high water season. In making this general statement I refer to the big changes, changes in the main river bed 3336 and not just where there is silt. Where there is gravel bottom |
