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Show Record In the fall of 1915 I went from Hite, Utah, to Lees Ferry. 3697 I drove from Greenriver to Hite. I had a boat there. Mr. Wimmer had gotten the boat for me. He accompanied me on the trip. The purpose of the trip was looking for feasible reservoir and dam 3698 sites in the river. On that trip we encountered riffles at the mouth of the San Juan. The river being so full of mud it stopped our boat leaking. I put one leg out of the boat, and thought I was stepping on a rock, and I went down almost to my neck. I was in a moving sand bar. There were a number of other places where we encountered riffles. I do not know any other river in the United States similar to the Colorado River. 3703 In making an examination of a river for the purpose of determining its usefulness for navigation you take into consideration the question of fall of the river, the probable velocity during high water, and the depth of channel and stability of the channel, the tortuousness of it, obstructions and stream flow. The fall of a river becomes important in navigation because it affects the velocity of a stream. I do not recall what 3704 the fall of the Colorado River was. I found those portions of the Green and Colorado Rivers that I was on to be very crooked, a very short radius curve. At times of considerable velocity of current it becomes very dangerous to navigation. It might throw the boat against a bar, a cliff or a rock. 3707 The fluctuations in the stream flow also affect navigation very much. 3708 As to dependability of stream flow, I saw the Green River a number of times, extending over a number of months, and during that period I obsorved that the stream was one of irregularity and 3709 erratic regimen. According to my observation, while I was there, the |