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Show of Slick Horn Canyon , Grand 127 Gulch , Navajo Canyon and at the mouth of Comb Wash , and at those points the condition is just about the same as on the other stretches of the river that I have worked along . ( R . 4340 , Vol . 25 . ) Between May and December , 1926 , ( I 1 ) was with the ( gov- gov ) ernment ( survey surv'ey survey ) party on that stretch of the Colorado River between a point about one mile below Moab and Lockhart . We used the same row boat we had used on the San Juan , also ( 15-foot 15foot ) outboard motor boats and Moab Garage ( Com Com- Com ) pany motor boats . Charles F . Moore was chief of that party . In ( meanderingi meandering ) the stream it was necessary to go to shore at ( almost -almost almost ) every bend in the river ( R . 4340-2 , Vol . 25 . ) 1 was again on the Colorado River with the same survey party from May until December , 1927 , when our work was between a point a mile and a half below Moab and a point six miles below the mouth of Indian Creek . We would usually be on the river a part of every day . I made a ( num- num ) ber of trips from Lockhart to Moab in 1926 , and . in 1927 made ten or fifteen trips between Moab * and Lockhart , on three or four of which trips I drove the boat . On one occasion I saw a large ( boat 'boat boat ) of the Moab Garage Company stuck on a sand bar for about four hours , and I saw it stuck on eight or ten other occasions for periods ranging from five to fifteen minutes or half an hour . With the small motor boats I was never held up more than minute or so and did not have to get out and push my boat off , nor have I seen such an incident when other people were operating the small motor boats . ( R . 4343-6 , Vol . 25 . ) In addition to our own boats and those of the Moab Garage Company , there were five or six boats plying the river while I was with the survey party on that stream . ( R . 4346-7 , ( Vol V61 ) . 25 . ) ( I 1 ) saw all sections of the San Juan River between Clay Hill ( Cross Cross- Cross ) ¬ ing and a point about six miles above the mouth of the San Juan , and in that stretch there was no place ( "that that That ) I would call a rapid ; in places the water ran quite swiftly and there were rocks , but I could bring a motor boat through those places ; there were places I ( couldn't couldnt ) row a boat up but I believe a motor boat could come up . ( R . 4348-60 , Vol . 25 . ) There was no place on the San Juan River where we were hung up by a sand bar ; we stopped against bars but it was no trouble to go around them and find a place out . I operated our boat . I would say that we were stuck on a bar a dozen times all told . Where it was convenient to get our boat into an eddy we could row it upstream , but |