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Show Record wet. At the other places it didn't come up that high. I should judge it varied at the other crossings from six to eighteen inches. 2733 It wasn't necessary to swim my horse at other of the places I crossed and when I waded the stream I should judge it came up six to eighteen inches on my boots. I have never attempted to wade the San Juan River when it was waist deep. We brought 2734 our supplies overland from Bluff about seventy- five miles, obtained none of our supplies by boat and saw no other boats except ours. I do not believe I can tell how deep the water was 2735 when we took supplies across the river in our boat. There were times when sand waves would come down the river and up the river and then smooth out. We never attempted to cross the river if 2736 we could help it when the waves were running. I would estimate that they ran as high as four feet. I believe I saw these waves in March or April - I think April - and they were of quite frequent occurrence. I have been on the Colorado River from the mouth of Castle Creek down to No. 2 Well and I have been approximately ten miles below Lockhart - all on government surveys. I have been on the stretch of river between Castle Creek and Moab, both up and down-stream. In the lower part we traveled upstream; in the upper sec- 2737 tion we traveled downstream. We traveled upstream in the lower section in August, 1928, in a sixteen- foot boat with an outboard motor and operated that boat to a point just below the Big Bend, maybe farther up than that. I didn't think it was safe to take the boat through the rapids above Big Bend and we found rapids 2738 at Big Bend. We there beached our boat, went to the mouth of Castle Wash, got a small row boat, and used the row boat in our survey downstream, crossing the river back and forth as we worked. We borrowed this boat at a ranch at the mouth of Castle Creek; it was a homemade boat about ten or twelve feet long and three feet wide. There are rapids between Castle Creek and the 2739 Big Bend; one rapid is below the mouth of Castle Creek. There |