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<br /> <br />the Colorado. There is a measuring gauge or station a little <br /> <br />above Lee's Ferry at this time. A stilling well has been <br /> <br />decided upon, to cost seve ral thousand dollars, and the most <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />feasible place or point for its construction is above Lee's <br /> <br />Ferry. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />MR. A. P. DAVIS: No, Mr. Norviel. <br /> <br />MR. NORVIEr.: I don't mean above Lee's Ferry, but above the <br /> <br />confluence of the Paria, It will be below Lee's Ferry, but above <br /> <br />the junction of the Paria. <br /> <br />MR. S. B. DAVIS; Do you mind telling me what a stilling <br /> <br />well is? <br /> <br />MR. NORVIEL: Well, a stilling well is a structure within <br /> <br />which the float operates an automatic gauge, for the measuring <br /> <br />of water. <br /> <br />MR. CARPENTER: Whore the water is stilled. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />MR. NORVIEL: Yes, ,There the ,rater is still. The most <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />feasible damsite, so far as our information goes, for a reser- <br /> <br />voir, dam and reservoir, in the neighborhood of Lee's Ferry will <br /> <br />be above that point. In all probability there will be no dam <br /> <br />within a distance of forty or fifty miles, whatever the distance <br /> <br />mfiY be, below Lee's Ferr"J at ]v'larble Canyon and the,t will be so <br /> <br />guarded that it will never back the water up to the present <br /> <br />Lee's Ferry. That point I deem will be held sacred in its <br /> <br />',or <br /> <br />practical present condition so far as the river is concerned. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />It will, however, no doubt, in order to gain the greatest drop, <br /> <br />or save the fall of the river for the manufacturo of power, back <br /> <br />13th - S.F. <br />7 <br /> <br />101 <br />