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Show was in the canyon from 1907 ( GO 60 ) to 1915 . Monette , ( Russell Itussell ) and I did some placer mining at the old Stanton dredge for about a month , taking out a little gold . They went on to Lees Ferry , where I later followed expecting to ( meet ineet ) them , and when I found they had gone on I turned around and pulled my boat back up the river to ( Kite Hite ) in November . I was five days on the downstream trip to Lees Ferry , ( ground- ground ) ing numerous times , especially at Shock Rapid . I recall crossing the ledge just below the mouth of Lake Canyon , but I never had very much trouble getting over that ledge . At Lees ( Feriy Ferry ) I got enough supplies to take me back up to ( Kite Hite ) . ( R . 2353-7 , Vol . 13 . ) On my upstream trip I saw some people placer mining where Russell , Monette and I had mined . My supplies would come overland to the river at Hite and I would drag them up the river in my boat to Red Canyon , where I located . ( R . 2359-60 , Vol . 13 . ) 1 lived at my ranch for seven years and during that period traveled from Green River , Utah , to Lees Ferry ; made numerous trips to the dredge , other trips to Olympia ( Ear Bar ) and to the California Bar . I observed changes in the channel at all stages except high water , when it is always on the outside of the river . High water always leaves sand bars on the inside of the bends . The high water cleans the river , and after that the summer ( floods flocds ) come along and fill the channel again . ( R . 2364-5 , Vol . 13 . ) Even at points where the river crosses there are some deeper places which we try to . find , which I suppose you would call the deeper part of the channel . What I intend to testify to is that from year to year , you ( can't cant ) tell in advance where that deeper place is , and I am probably wrong in saying that there is no channel there . ( R . 2366-7 , Vol . 13 . ) At crossings there are places that are 2 feet deep , but you have to get out and wade around to find them , and . in approaching a crossing you know that you are going to encounter those very things ; in other words , you have to hunt for the channel where the river crosses when the water is at a lower stage or when there are rains in the mountains . ( R . 2368 , Vol . 13 . ) In 1911 , ( I 1 ) went with Mr . Seaboldt , who was investigating placer mining , from Hite to Lees Ferry ; we encountered only the usual sand bars , ran on a rock at Trachyte and Shock Rapids , hitting a gravel reef at Shock Rapid , with no serious result . ( This 'This This ) trip was made in December , 1911 , , and we towed our boat back upstream , leaving Lees Ferry , , January 31 , and arriving at Hite February 17 or 18 . . ( R . |