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Show ( R . 1812-14 , Vol . 10 . ) At 42 places on the Green our boats had trouble with sand bars and we would touch bottom with our oars . I recall getting stuck at Double Bowknot and at a point 14 miles below Green River , Utah ; I think there were other times beside these two , but they are the only two instances that I recall . We encountered no ( diffi diffi- diffi ) ¬ culty between the mouth of the Green and Cataract Canyon . Mr . ( Rodin's Rodins ) description of our trip through Cataract Canyon is about the same as mine would be . ( R . ( 1816-19 1916-19 ) , Vol . 10 . ) The boiling condition that we encountered below ( Cat Cat- Cat ) ¬ aract Canyon is just the ordinary swirling of water that occurs in any stream where there are rocks in the current . Perhaps on our trip there were fifteen or twenty occasions when most of the boats were stuck , but it was not always necessary to get out of the boat to push off . I think we were all stuck just below Double Bowknot on the Green except Mr . Dodge . I am not sure whether we were all stuck at the place above Bullfrog Rapid but am sure all of our boats dragged there . We did not all get out . On the one occasion in Glen Canyon and once at the Bowknot the majority of our boats were stuck . ( R . 1823-8 , vol . 10 . ) Outside of Cataract Canyon there was no unusual ( diffi diffi- diffi ) ¬ culty in taking our boats through any section of ( the'rivers therivers ) we traversed except at the bad swirls in the narrow parts of the canyon . ( R . 1830 , Vol . 10 . i Raymond M . Priest testified : In 1914 ( I 1 ) was engaged in investigating reservoir and dam sites on the San Juan River for the Bureau of Reclamation , N . B . Condway being chief of the party and Messrs Dahl and Merrill being in the party . I went over the country from Farmington , New Mexico , to a point 25 miles below Bluff in the vicinity of Mexican Hat on the San Juan River . ( R . 1833-5 , Vol . 10 . ) ( I 1 ) was there on the river in September , 1914 , which was in the low water period , and had occasion to cross the San Juan back and forth in making our survey between the dam site located at the point I have indicated beiow Bluff and a point at the ( up- up ) per end of the reservoir , some 30 or 40 miles above . ( R . 1837 , Vol . 10 . ) At that time the water in the channel at Bluff was from 24 to 36 inches deep . ( "It It ) ( 24 or 36 inches ) seemed uniform throughout the whole stretch of river we worked on . " ( R . 1837-8 , Vol . 10 . ) ( I 1 ) saw no boats during the four or five weeks I was there on the San Juan River . ( R . 1843 , Vol . 10 . ) |