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Show stream took three or ( four fotir ) days 50 . We grounded on sand bars many times , the channel being a little difficult to pick out ( R . 2097-9 , Vol . 11 . ) Exhibit 264 is a picture of our light barge and shows our survey barge , the Betsy Ann , stuck on a bar . ( R . 2100 , Vol . 11 . ) During our drilling operations ( at -it it ) the junction I was compelled to go out at times . ( R . 2102 , Vol . 11 . ) One morning there was a sudden ( 8-foot 8foot ) rise in the Colorado River and immense quantities of driftwood came down , ( which -which which ) collected on the ropes anchoring the barge on which our drilling outfit was placed . We were compelled to cut the front anchor lines in order to save the barge and machinery . Thereafter we took the outfit out . ( R . 2104-9 , Vol . 11 . ) We made the Betsy Ann into a steamboat , ( in- in ) stalling a paddle wheel on it , loaded 600 pounds of coal that Wimmer had brought down in the Marguerite , and took the Betsy Ann upstream on its own power . Going upstream the Marguerite pushed one of our small scows and the two motor boats pushed the other scow , we having loaded all we could of our outfit on the scows . We had some difficulty getting < around sharp bends of the river and grounded on sand bars but arrived at ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) ranch without any serious accident , there unloading the equipment , which was taken by wagon to Green River , Utah , ( and -and and ) shipped on the railroad . ( R . 2110-14 , Vol . 11 . ) When we made our survey Captain Yokey had charge of the boats . During that period we had motor boats 14 or 16 feet long , 4 or 5 feet wide , and with a draft of 7 or 8 inches . With those boats we encountered trouble with sand bars but became accustomed to them like eating and sleeping . ( R . 2117 , Vol . 11 . ) While our drilling operations were in progress I made three or four boat trips out , two up the Colorado River and on one occasion I went with Mr . LaRue on ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) boat up the Green River . We could discover no fixed channel in the Green except in two or three places where the water was very fast and deeper . Although there were no marked ( chang chang- chang ) es in the river while we were there except that one flood down the Colorado , ( there ther'e there ) was a shifting and changing of bars . The five days consumed by us in going upstream with our drill outfit ( doesn't doesnt ) represent actual running time . Our ( up- up ) stream journey after we finished our survey also consumed four or five days . ( R . 2118-21 , Vol . 11 . ) Mr . Wimmer had been awarded the contract for ( freight freight- freight ) ing our equipment and supplies to the junction . On the I f |