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Show Blake- D 925 was of greater draft, there was a channel through there and for one hundred yards, at least, above. I attempted to go up the left shore of the Colorado, and encountered a very shallow, submerged sandbar, which reached within, I should say, twenty- five yards of the narrowest place in the slide. I tried to cross this, and if I remember right, the motor was killed on account of striking these obstructions. We drifted below, started the motor again, and went up through with little difficulty, where we camped. Not far above here we had a great deal of difficulty finding a channel on account of sandbars and mud islands. I tried one side of the river, and decided it was getting too shallow, and drifted down again and tried the other side, and found out for a certainty it was too shallow. The larger boat had gone on, then, up the channel which I had attempted, and it crossed this crossing bar into a channel on the opposite side, so I followed somewhere near in its wake, and made the crossing. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Who was in the larger boat? A There was the pilot, Virgil Baldwin, a man named Morris from Moab, and Mr. Moyer, I believe. Q Where did that boat join you? 2895 |