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Show very much or so that ( wo we ) could 172 not make the round trip in two days . The only thing I know of that has ever been done toward improving the navigability of the Colorado River was the shooting out of an ice gorge on one occasion . ( R . 5295-8 , Vol . 30 . ) ( I 1 ) can go up the Colorado River as far as Cisco in a canoe like my own and have come up in my canoe from the junction without any trouble . ( R . 5301-2 , J Vol . 30 . ) George H . Chaffin testified : I am 50 years old , and first went to the Colorado River in March , 1895 , and worked on the California bar for about thirty days , the supplies for my party being boated to the bar from the mouth of Hanson Creek . In 1896 or 1897 ( I 1 ) again entered the river at Hanson Creek and worked on the Moquie bar , our supplies being boated from the mouth of Hanson Creek to that bar . During that season I made boat trips between Moquie and Tickaboo bar , rowing , poling , sailing and towing upstream . I have sailed up Tickaboo Rapids ( without Nv-ithout Nvithout ) aiding my boat , and at other times have aided with ( my ray ) pole . Between Tickaboo and Moquie bars my boat loads ( were ivere ) about twelve or fifteen hundred pounds . In transporting timber we generally used rafts 10 or 12 feet wide and 20 ( to too ) 24 feet long . ( R . 5305-8 , Vol . 30 . ) In 1898 we again worked on the Moquie bar , boating our supplies from Hanson Creek . In April , 1898 , I went down the Colorado River from Moquie to ( Independ Independ- Independ ) ¬ ence bar , also known as Shock bar , located about 15 miles below ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing , with a party of eight ; we had a boat and a raft and carried with us grain , supplies , ( machin machin- machin ) ¬ ery and rails . We had about 2500 pounds of load on our ( 20-foot 20foot ) boat and carried a thousand or fifteen hundred feet of lumber and three or four hundred feet of rails on the raft . We encountered no obstacles or obstructions to ( navi navi- navi ) gation and were not hung up on sand bars , rocks , rapids or otherwise . I remained at Shock bar from sixty to ninety days and had occasion to go up and down through Shock rapids . ( R . 5309-11 , Vol . 30 . ) In 1899 ( I 1 ) again worked on the Moquie bar and made a trip thence to Good Hope bar , sailing and poling the entire distance upstream and did not get out of my boat . I have sailed up Bull Frog , also Smith , rapids without the aid of a , pole or without rowing or ( tow- tow ) ing . ( R . 5312-13 , Vol . 30 . ) In 1900 ( I 1 ) worked on the Moquie bar , also at the Stanton dredge . During each of the years I was on the Colorado , up to and including 1901 , |