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Show Our boats drew 6 to 8 inches 54 of water and the current is very swift . Frequently the boats were stuck on sand bars at the low stage of water . We encountered perhaps thirty rapids between Bluff and the mouth of the San Juan . ( R . 2242-3 , Vol . 12 . ) We did not have nearly as many difficulties in operating our boats on the Colorado but there were several rapids similar to those on the San Juan . ( R . 2244 , Vol . 12 . ) On our trip to Lees Ferry we grounded four or five times but ( weren't werent ) compelled to get out and push our boats . ( R . 2245-6 , Vol . ( 12 1.2 ) . ) Of the pictures produced here by me ( ( Complainant's Complainants ) Exhibits 265 to 402 ) those numbered from 1 to 121 were taken on the San Juan River , the remaining 19 being ( taken tahen ) on the Colorado . I ( didn't didnt ) happen to take any picture of the San Juan on any of the occasions when it was only 20 or 30 feet wide and 6 inches deep and I have no pictures of the San Juan at real low water . ( R . 2247-9 , Vol . 12 . ) The lowest water on the San Juan to which I have referred was in the ( 17-mile 17mile ) stretch below ( Spencer's Spencers ) camp , between there and Piute Creek . I have pictures that were taken through that ( 17-mile 17mile ) stretch but they were not taken when I saw the low water there . ( R . 2250-1 , Vol . 12 . ) ( I 1 ) ( didn't didnt ) take any pictures of the stream at low water because at that time I ( wasn't wasnt ) ( particu particu- particu ) larly interested in low water . ( R . 2253 , Vol . 12 . ) The sand bars varied from year to year in location and would ( some- some ) times vary 5 or 6 feet in a day . ( R . 2254 , Vol . 12 . ) ( Ddvid David ) E . Rust testified : In 1897 , my brother and I got a boat at ( Kite Hite ) which he took down the river to Last Chance Creek , where I had taken some horses . We spent three months placer mining there and saw Mr . Stanton take his boats down the river and also saw another party of ( pros- pros ) pectors going down stream in a small boat . I then saw Nathan Galloway coming up the river , rowing and towing his boat . Last Chance Creek is not far above the Crossing of the Fathers and I went from there upstream about 60 miles in my boat to Halls Crossing , where there were two or three other small boats . ( R . 2258-61 , Vol . 12 . ) In 1898 , ( I 1 ) worked on the Good Hope Bar for three months . About twenty men were then employed there . . Supplies were brought overland to Hite and thence to Good Hope Bar in boats , which were 20 feet long and designed to carry about a ton . They would be rowed and towed upstream . During that stay on the river I saw Mr . Stanton |