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Show Record smaller boats about 4 inches, although I cannot swear to that 1710 draft. They were row boats, without motors. For the first five miles below the town of Green River we had no difficulty. After that the difficulties were in going over riffles. My boat, which was the heaviest loaded, dragged on the bottom in several places. Farther down two of the boats got stuck on sand bars, and I think they were fifteen or twenty minutes getting them off and the men in those boats had to get out and shove them off the bars. I can't give the approximate location of those bars, only that they were somewhere between Green River and the mouth of the San 1711 Rafael. We had no severe trouble, only that those two boats grounded. We left the town of Green River in the afternoon and made about fifteen miles that day. Between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green River, the only trouble we had was running on sand bars and getting out of the channel once. 1712 Mr. LaRue was in the leading boat and between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green River my boat was stuck once. I can't be positive how many times the other boats were 1713 stuck. It was frequent; I would say several times a day. When they got stuck the men in the boat would get into the water and push the boat off. We had no difficulty between the mouth of 1714 the Green River and the head of the cataracts. In going through Cataract Canyon, when we came to a rapid we would walk along the bank, look it over, locate the rocks and pick put the channel as near as we could from the shore. If the first boat ran through all right, the others would follow. Two boats were slightly damaged in going through Cataract Canyon, so that they had to be repaired. At the Dark Canyon rapid, we had to portage our cargoe around the rapid and lined our boats part way through, and then shot the remainder of the rapid. We lost no boats in Cataract Canyon. In going through the rough water we would run our boats 1715 at intervals of about fifteen minutes, but in smoother water we would stay about twenty feet apart. We ran all of the rapids except |