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Show 157 1903 , Yokey . - ( AI . . R . . 61 , Abs . R . vol . 2 , pp . . 868-875 : ) Trips ( were wore ) made in ( rowboats rowbGats ) ; easy to find ( chan- chan ) nel coming upstream . Going down , have a current of three miles faster ; to get steerage way coming back , run slightly faster than the water to keep ahead of it and get steerage way , so had plenty of time to pick the channel ; coming downstream , have trouble because you might come on to it too suddenly ( R . 3447-3448 ) with a boat of a draft of 18" must have 2 feet or more water ; where river splits up in two , or more channels had low water ; you ( mil will ) not find it ; if confined to one channel , get that much more water ( R . 3422-3424 . Between mouth of San Rafael and mouth of the Green River there are places where river spreads out and the water is shallow ( R . 3426-3427 ) ; some times pretty hard to find channel ( R . 3428 ) ; no channels to be found ( un- un ) less you get on the river when it is dropping or at medium stage ( R . 3433-4339 ) ; when river is rising can not tell where bars will be ; when the river falls , cuts out and spreads out and deposits a half mile further down ( R . 3444-3445 ) . 1904 , Chaffin . - ( M . R . 61 , Ab . R . pp . 854-855 , ) . 858 : ) Between Greenriver and mouth of San Rafael had ( rough xough ) water ; from there downstream had lot of trouble finding channel to get through the mud ; ; , seemed to be no place to go ; water shallow ; ; river . spread out ; got through getting out of boat and ( pull- pull ) ing it ; from mouth of Green up Colorado River and |