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Show Record On that trip down the Colorado to Lees Ferry we had no 3773 difficulty at all getting across the Aztec Rapid. The boats went through there easily. The only thing that impeded the progress of our boat was the grounding in shallow water on a few occasions. When I got to Lees Ferry I went overland to Flagstaff, Arizona. 3774 The San Juan River was always muddy when I was on it. I think the wind contributes only a miner portion of the sand or silt in the San Juan River. It is brought down by side streams and by water flowing across the surface on the ground in the canyon. Hugh D. Miser testified on cross examination as follows: I have never been through Cataract Canyon. When I wrote water supply paper No. 538, complainant's Exhibit No. 56, I recall stating on page 50 of that report the following: 3775 " The San Juan, in passing through the canyon, has numerous rapids, though they are all small, the greatest fall of a single rapid being only 131/ 2 feet. The rapid having this fall is 111/ 2 miles by stream above the mouth of the river, and is herein called the ' 13- foot rapid'." When I made those statements in may report, I had before me and I compared the profile of the San Juan with the profile in Cataract canyon and any other papers that were available. I had seen the Aztec rapid and any other rapids below the San Juan when I wrote my report. I had those rapids in mind when I made the 3776 statement in my report that the San Juan rapids were small. I recall making the following statement in my report, page 2: " The voyage was attended by strenuous labor and hardships, such as may always be expected in exploring an unknown canyon with 3777 its rapids in an uninhabited region." I made that statement after I had been down he canyon and after I had gained all the knowledge that I now possess on the subject. |
