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Show 556 when they got stuck]." R. 1354. On the Green River he followed the geology and everything clear up to mile post 34, and the points designated are those at which they found trouble. R. 1354. " I have given you the full number of points, every point at which we encountered sandbars." A stop was made at mile post 34 because it was estimated they had just enough gasoline to go down to the confluence of the rivers and up to " lower camp". He did not stop there because they could not go any further, " as a matter of fact, we got out and walked even beyond that point." to save gas. " I walked to the mouth of Upheaval Canyon from that point". The purpose of this expedition, " as I said once before, was to study the geology, the thick-ness of the sediment, the formation which came to the surface, and see whether we had any geological structures along the river such as we had encountered before, the four known structures, and to see whether, as far as Indian Creek, whether the stream might be navigable." R. 1355. That was the purpose of the expedition, " and to determine the navigability to the mouth of Indian Creek." R. 1356- 1357. The interest in determining the navigability to the mouth of Indian Creek was because they had prospective oil areas on Indian Creek about ten miles East of the Colorado River and this trip was made with the hope that they could see a way to get transportation to the river at that point." R. 1357. |