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Show Record Yuma Project three years in different capacities, and also in the Colorado River Basin Service. I was on the Green River from Green river, Utah, to its junction with the Grand from the 10th of July, 3950 to late in August, 1914. The object of the trip was reservoir survey and possible dam sites situated at the junction of the 3951 Grand and Green. 3952 It is stipulated between counsel that Mr. Worthy's testimony as to the character of the boats and the trip on the river from Greenriver, Utah, to its junction with the Colorado will be substantially the same as the testimony of Mr. Sawyer relating thereto. 3954 I could not help noticing those sand bars that formed. Sometimes there would be two or three channels going through a sand bar, and our problem at that time would be to pick the proper chan-nel. I do not believe we had any rising water on that trip. I think I might call it the falling stage. We were moving pretty fast down stream every day. We covered 5 or 6 miles or river, so we hardly ever saw the same stretch of river twice on the trip down. We crossed the river back and forth after we left the San Rafael. We were compelled to. Our survey was confined almost entirely to canyon walls. 3955 The " Marguerite" was not with us. We had the " Belle of Shannon" and the " El Rita". I was on the row boat. The motor boat was used to push the scow. I did not see any other boats on the river. Going down I saw one horseman, probably 15 miles below the San Rafael. Coming back the Marguerite met us with some mail. I saw no settler. 3956 Exhibit 479 is a picture of the " Betsy Ann" stuck on a sand bar. I am the bird in the picture with his pants off. Ray Bonner Worthy testified on cross examination as follows: In surveying down the river we would travel along the 571 |