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Show Record was no trouble to go around them. We ran into sand bars, but it 4351 was no trouble to back around them and find a place out. During all the time I was on the San Juan I was on sand bars probably a dozen time. I operated the row boats some of the time myself. I had operated a row boat on different lakes at different places, but not on rivers. 4352 I helped bring the boat up stream where it was convenient to get the boat into an eddy we could row the boat up stream, but in the channel we couldn't row it up stream. We pulled it with a rope. Towed it up. In 1926 our party went out by going up the Colorado River in boats. I do not remember that we went out in 1927 with a pack 4353 train. I never operated a motor boat prior to the time I went on the Colorado River. The other boats I saw on the river was a motor boat belonging to Clifford Smith, a motor boat belonging to a man named Vorhees, and I saw other boats but I don't remember who owned them, both row boats and motor boats. Three or four other row boats. I 4355 saw two row boats going up stream and another one going down stream. The boats going up stream were being rowed. The smaller boats I operated and saw on the Colorado River were not stuck on sand bars. They were stopped, but not stuck so as to give any trouble to get them off. I remember two trips on the Colorado River that I took that I was never stopped on a sand bar. On the other trips I was just stopped on sand bars from getting out of the channel. 4356 My observation of the bed of the Colorado River in the section that I was on was that it was quite permanent. I mean by that I did not notice any change. I never saw any change. On the San Juan I noticed a changes in the bed. It would 4357 not change from day to day. I noticed a change at the mouth of Nokai Canyon. I would say it would not change oftener than once a week. It will change every time the water comes up or goes down in |