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Show 8 , from observations on the ground that would bear on the question of navigation up and down stream . ( R . 298-9 , Vol . 2 . ) At the mouth of the San Rafael we loaded about ( one- one ) third of our supplies in a canoe and the remainder in a row boat . ( R . 183 , Vol . 2 . ) Below the mouth of the San Rafael there is a uniform slope of between one and two feet to the mile ; ( "there there ) are no riffles , no rapids , and no breaks in the general surface of the water . " ( "With With ) our small boats there was no great trouble on the bars . Every time we got on a ( bar -bar bar ) we would push off . " ( R . 184 , Vol . 2 . ) From the mouth of the Green we went up the Colorado River , a large motor boat of the Moab Garage Company taking some of our party , and Mr . Blake and I using our row boat , in which we had come down the Green , which row boat had an outboard motor . The large motor boat towed our canoe . ( R . 211 , Vol . 2 . ) That boat had a draft of two and half feet . ( R . 195 , Vol . 2 . ) Going up the Colorado we made approximately 2.4 miles an hour , including stops necessary to take pictures , fill the tank of our outboard motor and waiting for the other boat . The big boat was struck at a few points for a time and our small boat was stuck on a bar occasionally . ( R . 213-14 , Vol . 2 . ) In my report ( ( Complainant's Complainants ) Exhibit No . 75 ) , I specified one or ( two tivo ) places that the boat got stuck , but from a technical ( viewpoint viei7point ) it might have been as well for me to have ommitted those references , except as they show the character of the bed of the river . ( R . 300 , Vol . 2 . ) With the same boats , loaded and propelled in the same manner , I would say that one would encounter the same type of sailing going up or down the Green between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green and between the town of Moab and the mouth of the Green ; it would be as easy to go up or down one of the streams along those sections as to go up or down the other , ( R . 300 , Vol . 2 . ) We had very much more trouble with bars on the Colorado River than on the Green River . ( R . 285 , Vol . 2 . ) We reached the confluence of the two rivers on October 14 , 1928 , and the Green River was at its lowest stage for the month during the period from October 1 to October 12 . ( R . 293 , Vol . 2 . ) 1 made a survey of the bars and riffles mentioned in my report . I have read the 1909 report of the Army Engineers ( ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit No . 18 ) , and have examined each of the bars and riffles therein mentioned . We had no difficulty in locating those bars and riffles , which are listed in their proper order , with approximate mileage . ( R . 303-5 , Vol 2 . ) 1 had no |