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Show Record Charles Spaulding Howard testified on cross examination 3812 as follows: We have earlier records with reference to matter in sus-pension in these rivers than those that have been produced here during my testimony. Samples were taken at Yuma along about 1890 for a very short times. Then samples were taken in 1904, I believe, by the Bureau of Reclamation on several streams of the Colorado 3813 River basin. That was published in Water Supply Paper No. 274. Samples from the Little Colorado have been tested very infrequently, just when a man happened to be passing the station. We have had no regular observer there. I do not know under what conditions they were taken. I have made no study of the Little Colorado. With reference to the contents of its water, that is, the amount of solids in suspension, I have no information except such as I have gleaned from the very few samples taken in the manner 3814 I have indicated. Charles Spaulding Howard testified on examination by 3815 Special Master as follows: With 131,000,000 tons in the river during the year at Lees Ferry, and 50,700,000 tons at Greenriver, and with three times as much water at Lees Ferry as at Greenriver, the amount in sus-pension would be proportionately the same so far as the clarity of the water is concerned. What I mean is at Greenriver if we have 50,000,000 tons and the flow of the water were increased three 3816 times, it night very easily carry 150,000,000 tons. 3838 As to my examination at Goodridge, I took the quantity from May 1st to September 1st, and took the mean discharge for the year to compute the yearly load, for my yearly load in based on those two factors. I am not familiar with the river except for the purpose of getting silt. In Water Supply Paper No. 636- A I have four notations of silt on the San Juan, with immense variations in the different mouths. I did not compute the load for that particular period because I had so few samples. |
