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Show July or August , 1912 , 1 made 178 a motor boat trip with Mr . 1 Wolverton to Townsite bottom for the purpose of looking { over the country for use in the cattle business . My father paid Mr . Wolverton for this trip . We encountered no ( diffi- diffi ) culties and got on no sand bars . ( R . 5434-8 , Vol . 31 . ) We maintained a camp at Townsite bottom for about three years during which time I made another motor boat trip with Mr . A . I . Anderson with a boat load of supplies . Mr . Anderson was paid for the services rendered by him and his boat . During that period I borrowed a boat from Mr . Wheeler at his ranch five files ( below below- below ) Green River , Utah , and ( took toolc ) supplies down to our camp in that boat and then rowed and poled the boat back upstream to the Wheeler Ranch . I recall encountering no sand bars or other difficulties on the downstream trip with Wheeler boat but going back upstream I got on a sand bar when attempting to take a short cut across a bend . On the motor boat trip with Mr . Anderson I ( don't dont ) remember encountering any sand , bars . ( R . 5438-40 , Vol . 31 . ) In 1921 ( I 1 ) was with the ( Chenoeweth Chenoeveth ) party on the survey that began at the junction of the Green and Colorado rivers . I started from Green River , Utah , with Messrs . LaRue and Page before the rest of the party . The three of us rowed in an ( 18-foot 18foot ) boat to the junction of the rivers . We left Green River about September 15th and after finishing our survey work arrived at Lees Ferry in December , 1921 . ( R . 5441-3 , Vol . 31 . ) In making the topographic survey on which we were engaged I and the other rod man would take positions at designated points ; sometimes one man was used on one side of the river and one on the other side ; at other times we would ( criss-cross crisscross ) back and forth ; most of the time each of the rod men had a boat and we would go from point to point in our boats . Sometimes when I ( didn't didnt ) have a boat I have walked out into the river as far as I could wade and would swim the rest of the way . There were no sand bars in Cataract Canyon . From the foot of Cataract Canyon down to the ( Utah-Arizona UtahArizona ) line our boats were frequently stuck on sand bars and between Green River and the junction my boat would , of course , get stuck on a sand bar on the occasions when we landed . In going down the Green River , when we were traveling straight down the river ( with Vith ) no intention of stopping , we struck no sand bars but , when landing we would hit a bar . I do not recall a single instance of striking a sand bar between Green River , , |