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Show help the boat off . On the 123 upstream trip we had to come through much ice that was running on the river which made it especially difficult . ( R . 4205-6 , Vol . 24 . ) Between 1893 and 1905 ( I 1 ) made other hunting trips , with similar ( experi experi- experi ) ences to those I have described . In July , 1901 , ( I 1 ) made a trip in a row boat when the water was very low from Green River to the head of ( Cat- Cat ) aract Canyon with a surveying party that intended to build a sanitarium at Cataract Bottoms , with similar experiences to those I have already described . ( R . 4208-9 , Vol . 24 . ) 1 was engineer on the Undine on its first river trip . We had a crew of seven or eight or more men , and on the downstream trip struck sand bars , some days being hung up for several hours and other days making good headway . I believe the boat had a 22 horse power engine . On the trip from the head of Cataract Canyon up to Moab the bars ( didn't didnt ) give us much trouble because we would strike them at the lower side . ( R . 4210-6 , Vol . 24 . ) ( I 1 ) was one of the pilots on the first trip of the City of Moab when we went down to the junction and three miles up ( the -the the ) Colorado . That boat was too awkward , too heavy and had too much draft . I think its draft was about two feet . Between Green River and the mouth of the San Rafael we grounded three or four times but not badly and encountered sand bars in Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons . We were possibly six or seven days coming back upstream and , because of shallow water , stopped at ( Halverson's Halversons ) Ranch and remodeled the boat , ( mak- mak ) ing it into a steam boat and calling ( it -it it ) the Cliff Dweller . We then went in the Cliff Dweller from ( Halverson's Halversons ) Ranch up to Green River , Utah . We had a little trouble , but that trouble should have been avoided . ( R . 4218-23 , Vol . 24 . ) I went down to Valentine Bottom on the Black Eagle , made a trip with Mr . Oppenheimer in the Paddy Ross , a ( 27-foot 27foot ) boat with a 61 ! ( -foot foot ) beam and equipped with a 14 horse power engine ; there were four men on the boat . One man had his sister who was going down to his mining claim with him to spend the winter . We took their winter supplies on the boat with us . My wife accompanied me . We struck sand bars and worked our way through . I have also been on boat trips in the Wilmot , a boat 26 or 27 feet long with a ( 6-foot 6foot ) beam and equipped with a 4 horse power gas engine . We had to help the Wilmont over the riffles . ( R . 4223-8 , Vol 24 . . ) I have also made trips in the ( Mar- Mar ) guerite . Sometimes I can pick the deep water with accuracy |