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Show three to four hundred feet in 76 width and I once waded the river at the mouth of Mill Creek before we had a boat available and the maximum depth was about thigh deep and the current 5 or 6 miles an hour . ( R . 2835 , Vol . 15 . ) In 1927 ( I 1 ) went down the river on a Moab Garage Company boat to Lockhart and there used the same outboard motor boat I had used the previous year . The section of the river around Lockhart was no more difficult to navigate than the upper portion with which I am familiar . The river channel there is better water than in the upper portion and the channel can be found with less trouble . ( R . 2836-8 , Vol . 15 . ) ( When Men ) I went out , in 1927 , ( I 1 ) went up the river in the black boat of Moab Garage Company , trailing our outboard motor boat . In 1928 ( I 1 ) went down to a point known as the loop , located about six miles above the junction of the rivers , on or about October 20th f taking with me two ( 16-foot 16foot ) boats with outboard motors . ( R . 2840-1 , Vol . 15 . ) The work that year was of the same general character as I have described before , and we used one or the other of our boats in the progress of the work . I encountered more submerged rocks in the lower section of the river , whereas in the upper section our delays were usually occasioned by bars . When we would strike a rock and shear off the propeller it would be necessary to install a new pin , which we would do and then proceed . Four of us went upstream with our two boats about December 15th when ice cakes were running in the river , and we would try to avoid them ; sand bars offered no more trouble than in the past . ( R . 2842-5 , Vol . 15 . ) With our inboard motor boat we had a metal projection that fends off ( ob- ob ) structions from the propeller . ( R . 2848 , Vol . 16 . ) One of the government camps was at Indian Creek , located several miles back from the river . In 1927 that camp may have been a sort of distribution point for other camps working on the east side of the river . There was a road to that camp . My Lockhart camp was about 20 miles from that camp and about 8 miles from another inland camp . At Lockhart I ( wouldn't wouldnt ) always be advised when the Moab Garage boats would leave . After the first trip down to Lockhart , when I took our supplies on the barge , we ( ob- ob ) tained one or two additional small consignments by ( bring bring- bring ) ¬ ing them down in our small boats from Well No . 2 where the barge had delivered them . While at Lockhart we ( ob- ob ) tained some supplies from Indian Creek and some from |
