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Show of the Green River in a ( 16-foot 16foot ) 119 boat having an outboard motor . The purpose of this trip was to make a ( reconnais reconnais- reconnais ) sance along the river banks . We left Moab at 10 : 30 a . m . on August 4 , 1926 , and we ( had hid ) traveled downstream 341 : , miles , our boat grounding at a number of places , our worst grounding being at a place a few miles above ( Kane Xane ) Creek , where we took the outside curve of the river , which ( ordi- ordi ) narily would be the deepest part , and were compelled to push . and pull our boat for about a hundred yards to get into sufficiently deep water . On August 5th we continued on down to the junction , 301 £ miles below , making no stops that I recall , although there were a number of places where I had to get out and wade to find a sufficiently deep ( chan- chan ) nel . From the junction we went up the Green River three miles and had such difficulty in finding a channel that we turned around and came back , went up through the Slide on the Colorado , and camped for the night . We remained at the Slide on August 6th , and next day continued up the river , having difficulty in getting through rocky places at the mouth of Salt Wash . ( R . 3921-7 , Vol . 21 . ) We ( couldn't couldnt ) determine the age of the Slide ; it might be a hundred or a thousand years old . The day we left the Slide we camped at Mile 22 and grounded a few times , making the twenty miles in nine hours . On the remainder of the journey up to Moab we frequently grounded , ( and'at andat ) places I waded to , find a channel , our worst experience being just below the dock at Moab where there had been a flood down Court House Wash which carried rocks , mud and logs into the river . ( R . 3927-35 , Vo . 21 . ) I would say that the difficulties encountered in ( navi- navi ) gating that stretch of the Colorado between Moab and the mouth of the Green are about the same on the upper half as on the lower half of that stretch . ( R . 3948 , Vol . 22 . ) Ray ( Banner Bonner ) Worthy testified : I am an engineer and was in the government surveys on the trip referred to by the witness Sawyer between July 10th to late August , 1914 , that trip covering the stretch between Green River Utah and , , the mouth of the Green . In making the survey over that section we crossed the river back and forth after leaving the mouth of the San Rafael and observed sand bars ; sometimes there would be two or three channels going through a bar , and our problem would be to pick the proper channel . We would travel along the shore line pretty close , work from |