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Show 610 " Before we got to the mouth of the San Rafael we hit a few shoals, few small sand waves, and we had to keep one man on the lookout for channels, and the river had just gone down." R. 1479. It was approximately the middle of September; " lot of shoals in there then, after this high water deposited lots of sediment, new bars; at the mouth of the streams coming in rocks had been washed in; on account of the sediment in the water we couldn't see the bottom." R. 1479. Several times it was necessary at that stretch of the river to go overboard and help push the boats along. R. 1479. Between the mouth of the San Rafael down to the end of Labyrinth Canyon there was more sand, " more shoals than there were above, on account of the recent high waters in the San Rafael river." He was pilot, at that time, of the boat with the Evinrude motor. R. 1479- 1480 " Q. And from your experience upon rivers, are you generally able to pick where the deepest water ought to be? " A. Well, I always try to. " Q. Well, What signs de you look for in the operation of your boats? " A. Well, generally the current and the drift. " Q, Now, do you always find the deeper water that way? " A. No sir, not in that river. |