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Show testified about that trip . My 62 next river trip was with Colonel Dent from the mouth of North Wash downstream . We had a ( semi-keel semikeel ) boat with a round bottom , 16 feet long , and equipped with an Evinrude motor We left North Wash about I ( o'clock oclock ) September 1 , touched bottom a few times between ( there -there there ) and Red Canyon , but ( "nothing nothing ) ( serious" serious ) ; we also touched bottom with our oars at Trachyte , but ( didn't didnt ) use our power through that or any other bad water . Opposite Olympia Bar I had to get out and nose the boat around to get it where it should be . The stage of water was not ( ex- ex ) tremely low , about 12,000 or 14,000 second feet . Between North Wash and Lees Ferry , I remember only one place below Halls Crossing where it was necessary to get ( over- over ) board . At Shock Rapid I took the same channel I had previously taken , but it proved to be the wrong one and I had to zigzag to the other side and we got through . There was no more trouble until we got below the San Juan , where we saw some pretty big sand waves . Five miles below Navajo Creek we had nice sailing to Lees Ferry . When I made my first trip in 1908 , there was no place in Glen Canyon that you could not walk on one side or the other of the river while there are many such places today . ( R . 2398-2406 , Vol . 13 . ) Between 1908 and 1914 , all of the traffic in Glen Canyon that I remember was with 16 or ( 18-foot 18foot ) row boats . Bennett had a boat or two and did most of the running up up ( and -and and ) down the river at that time . Lon Turner had a 24- foot steel boat . I met Julius Stone and his party . ( R . 2407 , Vol . 13 . ) The only differences I recall in conditions on the Green River during my acquaaintance with that stream are that in 1907 , the main river ran along the right bank above Green River bridge with a very small channel on the east side and now there is an island there in low water and not much of a stream on the right bank in high water . ( R . 2408 , Vol . 13 . ) On my first visit to the San Juan , we took two boatloads of supplies to a point near Johns Canyon , approximately 60 miles below Chinle Creek in July or August , when the river was at low water stage . Later I saw three men at Slickhorn Canyon placer mining but I ( don't dont ) believe they had ! a boat , although it may have been their boat in which three of us went down to Copper Canyon in 1894 . ( R . 2410-13 , Vol . 13 . ) Both Wimmer and I were employed by the fj California Edison Company to handle boats onthe Colorado ; river . ( R . 2422 , Vol . 13 . ) When I took out the cook and ( -i i ) \ |