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Show Record is crooked with numerous side channels and islands and from 200 to 400 feet wide. I personally covered the river down stream 3997 from Grand Junction in a boat, for the purpose of the survey. From Grand Junction down the first 10 miles the fall is 3998 65 feet. I would call the water swift water. The next 10 miles the fall is 56 feet and swift water, The fall is gradual to mile post 18.2. From mile 20 to mile 24.5 is Horse Thief Canyon. From Horse Thief Canyon down to mile 30 is open country. In that 10 3999 miles the fall is 48 feet. The water in Horse Thief Canyon is swift. From mile 30 to mile 40 the drop is 56 feet. At mile 34.8 there is an abrupt drop. The rest is swift water. Between mile 4000 40 and 50 the drop is 68 feet. Between mile posts 40 and 50 there are two drops with swift water. 4012 I did not go through Westwater Canyon. I made my observations in Westwater Canyon for my map on a bench, a considerable distance above the surface of the water. The boat was portaged 4014 around the canyon and put back in the river at Big Hole, mile 56. From the head of Westwater Canyon to Big Hole, seven miles, the drop is 119 feet. Exhibit 503 is a photograph of a section of Westwater Canyon. Complainant's Exhibit 503, being photograph of section of Westwater Canyon, was received in evidence. 4015 Coming out of Westwater Canyon the river widens out and the country becomes open. There are islands. It is 24 miles from 4016 Westwater Canyon to Castle Creek. The drop in that stretch is 146 feet. In that stretch the water is comparatively quite down to mile 61.7, then there is a drop which continues down to almost 4017 mile 63. We quit work that fall at Castle Creek and at the same time in the year 1912 we continued the survey down to the mouth of the Green River. From Moab to the mouth of Green River we used two row boats and a large flat bottomed boat, 10 feet wide and 30 4018 feet long, for two days. We did not use boats between Moab and |