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Show 91 into the banks we would quite often run aground . . We also had a life boat with us and carried supplies in the ( flat- flat ) bottom boat . . ( "I I ) ( don't dont ) call to mind any time we had any difficulties . . " ( R . 3196-8 , Vol . 17 . ) 1 know of two places in the river where there are ledges running across . On that Lees Ferry trip I ( didn't didnt ) get acquainted with them , but on later trips down to the mouth of the San Juan I observed them . Mr . . ( Stanton's Stantons ) life boat had quite a keel on it and I recall that it struck while going through Bull Frog Rapid , although nothing vas injured . Again , at ( Shock's Shocks ) camp the life boat got in trouble . There are cracks in the bed rock at that place which are not very wide ; we took the life boat over to the right hand side , but still it dragged a little and we helped it over there ; that was at the Shock bar . I remember one other place somewhere below there where we had a little difficulty of the same kind ; we ( didn't didnt ) have any difficulty with our boat but the life boat had a little difficulty . It is shallow at the mouth of Lake Canyon and there is a reef but I ( don't dont ) remember whether it was at that place that we had the difficulty . ( R . 3199-3200 , Vol . 17 . ) After delivering the boats to Mr . Stanton at the dredge , just above Bull Frog Rapid , four of us continued on up to ( Kite Hite ) , ( rowing- rowing rowing ) and towing . ( R . 3201 , Vol . 17 . ) ( I 1 ) believe I saw the first sand waves I had ever seen on that Lees Ferry trip . The sand waves are worse when the river begins to rise in the spring and when it begins to go down . I have seen them at most any part of the river at certain times and they are worse below the mouth of the San Juan . I prefer an intermediate stage of water for navigation ; that is , where it is four or five feet above extreme low water . ( R . 3203-5 , Vol . . 17 ) In 1901 1 recall taking some lumber down the river from Hite to Olympia bar , about 35 miles below . We made three rafts , each 14 feet square , and fastened them together with cables . I loaded 5000 pounds of machinery and equipment on the raft , also all of our supplies , and with eight men we started down the river in June . In avoiding a dam and ( race-way raceway ) that had been built at Good Hope , we had to go over to the other side where there was a big swirl and where we touched the rocks but ( didn't didnt ) touch hard enough to hurt anything , and had no further trouble and landed our freight at Olympia bar . . Once in a while I would go up from there to Hite in my boat and bring down supplies . ( R . . 3206-9 , Vol . 17 . ) At one . |