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Show Record until we got a day that the wind was blowing and put up our sail and go on. Up to this time and in connection with the trips that I have made up stream and down stream, I never had any trouble with sand bars unless it was a time I was going up stream and would try to keep in too close to the shore to get easy water to go up. Once in a while you would be going up and you would try to keep in 4925 easy water. You would get in a kind of back eddy, and when you got up to the upper end it would be shallow, and you might have to go back and get out into the channel and go up. Coming down stream I never had any trouble with lack of water. I never had any difficulty with sand bars when my boat was in the channel of the stream in all my experience on the river. The following winter, about the holidays. I made a trip to North Wash. A fellow named Perkins and I took a little boat from the Olympia and went up as far as North Wash in it, rowing and poling and towing and sailing; there we picked up a fellow named 4926 Wilson and went on up to Dark Canyon. Between North Wash and the foot of the cataracts, there is a rapid at the mouth of North Wash, some swift water; then at the mouth of the Dirty Devil there is swift water; there is quiet, nice, smooth water from there up to Mill Creek Bend; and from there up to Dark Canyon it is swift water and rapids. Mill Creek Bend is practically the foot of the cataracts as I understand it. I was on the river in 1903 and 1904. I believe in the spring of 1903 or 1904 I went as watchman on what is known as the old Stanton Dredge. I continued in that employment and the running of a Navajo trading post for about 6 or 7 months. My first supplies came in at Hanson Creek. I boated then down to the dredge. Some of my other supplies came in at Wilson Creek, about a mile or 4927 mile and a half below the dredge. On one trip I got supplies from Wilson Creek to the dredge with the scow that was formerly brought in at Hite and on which the well rig was taken as far as the Calif-ornia bar and afterwards used for boating from the lower landing, |