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Show 115 times . . That stretch of the Colorado was essentially like the Green River ; the current was a little ( swifter sivifter ) and carried more suspended matter ; we went up the Slide under power ; ; it seems to me that we encountered sand bars ( going- going going ) up and down that stretch of the Colorado but I will not be perfectly sure about it . ( R . 3695-6 , Vol . 20 . ) In the fall of 1915 1 made a boat trip from ( Kite Hite ) to Lees Ferry with Mr . Wimmer looking for reservoir and dam sites ; we encountered riffles at the mouth of the San Juan and there was so much ( mud 3nud ) in the river that it stopped our boat from leaking . ( ( E IR ) . 3696-8 , Vol . 20 . ) Hugh D . ( Miser 31iser ) testified : I am a geologist with the U . . S . G . S . , and was with the 1921 survey on the San Juan River , and prepared . lVater Supply Paper No . . 538 . . We launched our boats about four miles below Bluff , , and the actual survey under Mr . ( Trimble's Trimbles ) direction began there . . At that point the water was only a foot or two deep . . ( R . 3728-32 , Vol . 20 . ) The first place that we had any difficulty with the rise of the water was at the ( "Narrows Narrows ) . " We had no ( diffi- diffi ) culty going down that section of the river between Chinle Creek and the Narrows and the boats did not ground at any place through that section , and did not really ground at any point until after we had passed the mouth of Moon Light Creek . . We portaged one ( rapid zapid ) at Mile 77.5 and the boats were taken through the rapid at that point empty . ( R . 3733-4 , Vol . 20 . . ) At about Mile 82.7 , above the mouth of the San Juan , a boat struck a boulder in a rapid and was cracked from end to end . ( R . 3736 , Vol . 20 . See ( Blake's Blakes ) statement , supra , as to defective construction of this boat . ) When I use the word ( "rapid" rapid "'rapid" rapid ) I include vhat some people term riffles and include all water that is worse than real swift water . ( R . 3743 , Vol . 20 . ) ( At pages 3743-5 of the record the witness indicates ( thirty-seven thirtyseven ) places on that ( por- por ) tion of the San Juan River traversed by him where the party encountered a ( "rapid" rapid ) as defined by him . ) ( Between Bet-ween Between ) Moon ( Light Liaht ) Creek and Piute Creek the ( chan- chan ) nel of the river is fairly wide and the water spread out so that in a great many places the channel was shallow and the boat grounded ; this would happen a , great many times ( dur- dur ) ing the day . . I ( don't dont ) know that we sounded the channel to the maximum depth . ( R . 3749-50 , Vol . 20 . . ) On one occasion . , a few miles above the mouth of Piute Creek , we had to pick up one end of one of our boats and lift it around |