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Show T . G . ( Gerdine Gardino ) testified : 43 I have had ( 36 3G ) ( years' years ) experience in the U . S . G . S . and am Division Engineer of the ( Topo Topo- Topo ) graphic Branch and supervised the survey work on the Colorado River . The 1921 surveys for dam sites in Glen Canyon were made in cooperation with Southern California Edison Electric Company . ( R . 1846-8 , Vol . 10 . ) In July , 1921 , ( I 1 ) went from Lees Ferry to Warm Creek in a flat bottom scow propelled by a marine engine , which had been designed to carry supplies up to the rapids below the mouth of the San Juan River ; the boat was 27 feet long ( with -with with ) a 7- foot beam , and its draft would depend upon its load . We put it in the river below the Paria Rapids , 3 miles below Lees Ferry , but it ( wouldn't wouldnt ) go up those rapids without help . ( R . 1849-52 , Vol . 10 . ) We assisted it over the rapids and it was easy going to Lees Ferry . Upstream from Lees Ferry we encountered rapids and a sand bar that night about 11 miles above Lees Ferry . Next morning we found it easier to follow a course up the south bank of the river and went on to Warm Creek . ( R . 1854 , Vol . 10 . ) Next day we went back to Lees Ferry because it was too much of a struggle to go further up the stream , which was flowing from 25,000 to 28,000 second feet at that time . Later I made another short trip up from Lees Ferry and encountered no difficulty . ( R . 1855 , Vol . 10 . ) I believe the boat in which we took my trip up to Warm Creek had a draft of 18 inches loaded . There was no rapid or riffle at Warm Creek , where we turned around and came back , it being pretty good water there and not difficult as compared with water we ( had bad ) been over . ( R . 1882-5 , Vol . 10 . ) William Hiram Edwards testified : I was with the Stanton expedition of which Mr . Nims was a member and which launched its boats at Crescent Creek on December 6 or 7 , 1889 . ( R . 1893-7 , Vol . 10 . ) Between Crescent Creek and Tickaboo Bar we were stuck on bars quite a good deal . Between Tickaboo Bar and Lees Ferry we had no ( diffi diffi- diffi ) ¬ culty in operating our boats except as a result of the ( ex- ex ) treme shallow water . I think we made one portage of about a half a mile because of shallow water , but ( can't cant ) locate the place . ( R . 1898-9 , Vol . 10 . ) Between Crescent Creek and Lees Ferry we saw , in addition to a party from Omaha , eight or ten other people engaged in placer mining . On Tickaboo Bar they had a ( 40-horsepower 40horsepower ) pump . ( R . 1901 , Vol . 10 . ) |