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Show 536 " We stared out from the dock at Moab, and the first day we camped in the vicinity of the Kane creek well, the Shafer oil and gas, the first one on the river; I think that is about eighteen miles south of Moab by the river." R. 1319. Just below the Moab dock where the river makes a turn they had trouble with sand bars, both going down and coming up stream. " We had difficulty going down the river where the stretches of the river were straight. On the bends we had no difficulty, but we were grounded off and on all the time, clear from where we started down to the junction to the rivers. " In coming back, we were able to go over some of the stretches where we got grounded when we went down, indicating that there were shifting sands in the river bottom. " Q On you way down did you carry a map? " A We had a river map; I think I saw one this morning; I think this is the map here ( indicating.) [ R. 1319] " Q What notations did you make on that map going down? " A Reeside sat in the bow and noted where we got grounded going down, and other features of geology. " We would stop, say, two or three or four hours at a place, collect fossils out of the limestone, |