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Show the boat as far into shore as 73 they could in order to permit me to keep an appointment I had made to meet Mr . ( Moore Aloore ) at that point and they probably got stuck because of their attempt to land me . ( R . 2717-8 , Vol . 15 . ) Charles F . ( Moore 3loore ) testified : I am a U . S . surveyor for the General Land Office . From December , 1923 , until the spring of 1924 ( I 1 ) was at our survey camp at ( Oljeto 01jeto ) Springs , about 12 or 13 miles southwest of Goodridge . ( We lVe ) were ( sur- sur ) veying the area between the San Juan River ( and afid ) the ( Utah- Utah ) Arizona line . ( R . 2723-5 , Vol . 15 . ) During that period I had occasion to go to the ( river's rivers ) edge at the mouth of Slick Horn Canyon and Clay Hill crossing . I was also at the San Juan River in the winter of 1925-6 when we surveyed the country from Moonlight to Piute Canyon . ( R . 2728-9 , Vol . 15 . ) ( I 1 ) crossed the river once or twice in a boat and also crossed frequently on horseback . I ( didn't didnt ) observe the depth of the water at Copper Canyon , but at the mouth ( of 'of of ) Piute Canyon it came up so that you would have to hold your feet out of the stirrups of your horse to keep from getting wet . At other places it ( didn't didnt ) come up that high . I judge it varied at other places from 6 to 18 inches . ( R . 2730-2 , Vol 15 . ) Our supplies came overland to our camp and I ( can't cant ) tell how deep the water was on any occasion when we took supplies across the river in our boat . I have seen sand waves as high as 4 feet . ( R . 2734-6 , Vol . 15 . ) In 1928 we made government surveys above Moab and I went upstream from Moab in August of that year in a ( 16-foot 16foot ) outboard motor boat to a point just below Big ( Bend- Bend ) maybe farther up than that . We beached the boat at Big Bend , went to the mouth of Castle Creek and got a small row ( boat -boat boat ) which we used in our downstream survey , crossing back and forth as we worked . ( R . 2736-8 , Vol . 15 . ) In May , 1926 , ( I 1 ) went from Moab to Lockhart in the black boat of Moab Garage Company , and later made a boat trip to a point 10 miles below Lockhart . I recall no ( diffi- diffi ) culty on the down or upstream trip except there ( were -were were ) a few whirlpools and our progress was slow . ( R . 2741-2 , Vol . 15 . ) Supplies for our camps below Moab came part by boat and part overland . Part of the time I had no way of getting in touch with the garage so as to know when their boat was coming down , and they would only come when they had special trips to make . ( R . 2743-4 , Vol . 15 . ) During my survey work on the San Juan the only one of the camps that we established that was close to the |