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Show the year before ; it changes . 132 Any one will accidentally run against a sand bar at times ; I did so , but had no trouble . On my first expedition I ( wasn't wasnt ) hung up on a sand bar more than two or three times on the round trip . I rowed my boat upstream most of the way although at lots of places I ( towed to-wed towed ) it . ( R . 4446-7 , Vol . 25 . ) In coming down the Green River we had no trouble at any of the rapids and did not ground at any place . I ( don't dont ) recall getting on any sand bars on that river except when setting my traps . ( R . 4449 , Vol . 25 . ) Frank H . Karnell testified : I am 58 , and first came to the San Juan country in 1904 , going to the San Juan River at Mexican Hat to placer mine . I rafted a camp stove from a point 12 or 15 miles above my camp down to my camp in the latter part of August , 1904 . 1 made one ( 25-mile 25mile ) boat trip down the river to Soda basin that year and used the boat up and down the river as we moved camp and worked the bars . At different times we would move our camp upstream from one to five miles , and in so doing would row and pole the boat . When I took trips up the river I would take my supplies in my boat . ( R . 4452-6 , Vol . 25 . ) In the spring of 1905 ( I 1 ) took the boat I had been using up the river to its owner and went to Bluff and , built a boat 16 feet long with a ( 7-foot 7foot ) beam and drawing 8 or 10 inches of water . The first boat I used drew about 7 or 8 inches . When my boat was built I bought about a thousand pounds of supplies . at Bluff and took them down in my boat to my ( camp carap ) between Chinle Creek and Mexican Hat . In March , 1906 , another man and I went to Bluff and built two more boats , one of them 18 feet long with a 6 or ( 7-foot 7foot ) beam , and another 16 feet long with a ( 5-foot 5foot ) beam . We loaded those boats and a third boat with supplies , , camp outfits , rockers , tools and wheelbarrows and , went down the river , stopping first at Mexican Hat . The river was then at a very low stage of water . After a few days we continued our boat trip on down to Mendenhall Gooseneck and , , after working the bars there for a time , continued on down to ( Honaker's Honakers ) Trail . There I sprained my ankle and went out , , leaving my boat and supplies with my partners , who agreed to take it with them on down to a point between Slick Horn Canyon and Grand Gulch so I could get it there when I came back . Later I went back and found ( my ray ) boat at the |