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Show Record In the section of the Colorado River below the cataracts 3893 which I surveyed I saw a settler at Hite, Tom Humphrey. I did not see any other boats in there while I was surveying until in the fall. It was a large, cumbersome sort of row boat. It belonged to an old man who stayed one night. From the mouth of the Fremont River down to Halls Crossing there is a trail along portions of the river on one side and pieces of a trail on the other side. 3894 I went clear down to the mouth of the San Juan. After I got through there I went on down the Colorado and helped Mr. Fowler in Navajo Creek. The first time that I went to the Colorado River in and around Hite I went down as far as Halls Crossing. From Halls Crossing we went out to re- outfit for the cataract trip, going overland 3895 to Greenriver, Utah, and started down again. I did not take my boat back. I left it down the river. On my first trip down the Colorado I noticed a rapid at the 3896 mouth of North Wash and on my second trip through there it was gone. By second trip was made in October. To my best remembrance the fall I observed on that rapid on my first trip was around 5 feet. On my second trip I was just on a boat passing down the river then and I do not suppose there was any perceptible fall. I also prepared the profiles which accompanied the topo-graphic sheets. Will R. Chenoweth testified on cross examination as follows: I was at the mouth of the San Juan When I met the old man 3897 with the large clumsy row boat. He was coming down stream. He said he had come from Grand Junction, Colorado. He went on down the river from my camp. The maps in complainant's Exhibit 10 were prepared by me. I have indicated on those maps all of the rapids that I observed. The matter appearing in red lead pencil has been added and was no part of the map as I prepared it. The matter appearing in black ink 3898 has also been added. The coloring in green and red along the river |
