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Show time I moved a Keystone drilling 92 outfit from the California bar up to Good Hope bar , and a few years later took it back down . I took it down in November or December on a raft and in our boat , and it weighed three or four tons . In taking the drill outfit upstream we made two trips . We went up the river with a sail and had the big boat and it was while the river was rising quite rapidly . We used a big canvas for a sail and would wait for the wind . I think our actual traveling time in making that upstream trip was only about a day and a half . ( R . 3210-1 , Vol . 17 . ) At one time I worked a copper property up White Canyon , about nine miles from Hite ; I hauled the ore from the mine to the Colorado River with four mule teams and took it across the river in my tunnel boat , and thence over into Green River , Utah . ( R . 3212-3 , Vol . 17 . ) ( I 1 ) recall going into that country to drill for oil in July , 1920 , when I built a raft at ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing in three ( 14-foot 14foot ) sections . We used some of the drill rig timbers in our raft . I recall no difficulty encountered in taking this raft down the river except at one point where we got into a bad swirl and the raft went out of sight ; it was loaded quite heavily and some of the light stuff was not tied on and drifted off , but the raft bobbed up again a little ways farther down and we were not hung up at any other place and made the trip in less than a day . I also recall building another raft at ( HalPs Hall's Halls ) Crossing and going up the river to Hite , where we picked up material for the raft , added on to it , and then loaded it with supplies ; we had considerable trouble with the raft , but I ( don't dont ) remember being hung up anywhere until we got to Shock Rapids , where we unloaded and then got some of the other boys to come up and help us . ( R . 3214-6 , Vol . 17 . ) When the last mentioned raft got hung up we stayed below there for the night ; I ( don't dont ) believe we found any water more than ( two -two two ) feet deep there . I think the ledge at that point went up and down . stream about an eighth of a mile . The only other occasion when I got on that ledge was when we had trouble getting Mr . ( Stanton's Stantons ) life boat through there , and on that occasion I think we only had to work it for a little ways . ( R . 3217-8 , Vol . 17 . . ) The channel of the river shifts sometimes . As a general thing , the shift occurs in high water or immediately after high water . If there is some obstruction it causes the current to cross and it may shift over a third or half the width of the |