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Show Gobigupstreain , ( intermediate iliterinediate ) 832 water most accept able , 4 or 5 ft . above extreme low water ; in high , water , water runs out ; ( can't cant ) get up against the current ; in low ( water -water water ) , too many shallow places ; ( rocks xocks ) stick up ( in iii ) river ; sometimes buried ; run on ( them tbeni ) and cannot get off ; water ( is 'is is ) ( on Oil ) both sides . ( R . 3205-3206 . ) Going down river in 1901 with lumber from Hite to Olympia bar , 25 miles ; lumber was hauled to Hite with teams ; made three rafts with the ( lum lum- lum ) ¬ ber ; rafts 14 ft . square ; cabled together ; loaded on gasoline 20 H . P . ( engine eligine ) ; fly wheels weight 2,500 pounds ; complete engine 5,000 pounds ; some ( sup- sup ) plies and eight men ; went down during high water in June ( , 7 ) not extremely high ( , ) ) but with water 12 or 14 ft . above low water . ( R . 3206-3207 . ) Had big waves at Trachyte Rapids ; got in big ( whirl wbirl ) at raceway at Good Hope Bar ; touched rocks . ( R 3207-3208 . ) Eventually got ( through tIlrough ) and landed at Olympia bar . ( R . 3208-3209 . ) Supplies came ( down dowli ) Hanson Creek and up river 5 miles to Olympia Bar ; once in a ( wliile while ) brought them by boat from Hite ; first by railroad to ( Greeii- Greeii Green- Green ) river and by team to ( Hanson IIanson ) Creek . During all the time he was there never received supplies ( from frorn ) Greenriver , Utah , by using boat on river . ( R . 3209-3210 . ) Oil rig brought down stream in November or December to Good Hope bar from California Bar on a ( raft Taft ) he built ; he also used a boat ; oil rig he used to drill to sample rock and it weighed 3 or 4 |