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Show 314 water; there is no growth on them, just sand. That is true through Labyrinth Canyon, a great part of that Canyon. " Q. Getting down into Stillwater Canyon, did you have trouble with the sand bars? " A. Yes, we did; not as much as we did in Labyrinth Canyon. We overtook my brother with his boat below the Double Bowknot, and we attached his boat to the other side so we had a sort of a raft, you might call it, three boats side by side; they were all propelled with this outboard motor; we didn't use oars, at all. " R. 824- 825. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. So you had a boat about fifteen feet wide, so to speak? " A. Between twelve and fifteen feet wide; and once in a while he would loosen his boat and drag it behind the other two, for the sake of making motion pictures from the deck of the boat, of our progress, and we would get our boats in the pictures; then we would come back to his position at the side of the boat. We have one motion picture we made where we ran on to a sand bar and had considerable difficulty in Stillwater Canyon getting off and finding the deeper channel, but we didn't have as much trouble there as we had in Labyrinth, and because the river is confined by walls which come pretty close to the water, it didn't give it the opportunity of meandering; I don't know that there are any islands sticking above the water in Stillwater Canyon. " R. 825- 826. |