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Show it , but often it was more difficult 26 going upstream because we could not handle the boat . ( R . 1168-9 , Vol . ( G 6 ) . ) During high water we occasionally encountered sand bars . If we had no trouble going downstream we would make the trip to Shafer No . 1 Well in about two hours and a half , a ( dis- dis ) tance of 19 or 20 miles ; the return trip would take about 6V or 7 hours , sometimes longer . ( Seventy-five Seventyfive ) per cent of the time we would have trouble with sand bars , ( R . 1169- 70 , Vol . 6 . The longest time we were ever stuck was a day and a half at a point ( I1 11 ) _ * miles below No . 1 Well , ( where wherd ) the river divided into four parts , no one of which ( was -was was ) deep enough to float the boat ; that was in August , 1926 . ( R . 1170 , Vol . 6 . ) We were stuck many other times for as long as an hour to four hours . The longest time we ever took going up to Moab from No . ( 1 I ) Well was ten hours . ( R . 1171 , Vol . 6 . ) The troubles that I have detailed ( oc- oc ) curred during July , August , December and January , when the water was at its lowest stages . ( R . 1177 , Vol . 6 . ) We also had trouble during other months , including trouble with floating ice during January , February and March . ( R . 1178 , Vol . 6 . ) If we ( hadn't hadnt ) been on the river for a day or two or a week , we would have members of the crew up in front taking soundings , which would help quite a bit ; but if we were running regularly there ( "wouldn't wouldnt ) be much for the other men to do , because ( running- running running ) regularly I would know very near where to go ; but I would kind of get off my course lots of times and get stuck . " ( R . 1181-2 , Vol . 6 . ) During the winter of 1924-5 the river froze over between December and the following March , but it has not frozen over since then and such an occurrence is unusual . In January , 1926 , there was an ice jam that prevented us getting through . ( R . 1192 , Vol . 6 . ) The tonnage of freight carried on the big boat would average 10 or 11 tons a trip going down and about the same tonnage on the upstream trips . ( R . 1200 , Vol . 6 . ) In operating the big boat I would say that 25 per cent of the time we had no difficulties going either up or downstream ; 50 per cent of the time we had no difficulties that would ( tie tic ) us up for more than a few minutes ; and 25 per cent of the time we would have difficulties that would delay us five or six hours , except three occasions when the delays were longer than that . ( R . 1208-10 , Vol . 6 . ) All of the boats concerning which I have testified were run for commercial purposes and for the profit to be made in the operation . ( R . 1215 , Vol . 6 . ) |