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Show ( Loper ) dragged boat up 626 river seventeen miles to get supplies ; this was in month of September . ( Oompl Compl ) . Exb . 373 picture showing them going up the river ; water very low . ( R . 2330-2332 . ) Reefs across ; ; took two days to go up seventeen miles . ( R . . 2332 ) Going down stream , ( took t-ook took ) whole day ; pulled boat good part of way ; ended boat over reef ; crossing bars and crossing channel cause river to cross ; crossing bars formed by side canyons sweeping floods in river , forms a bar that takes . down the river and crosses over to the other side ; in time the river cuts through . ( R . 2335 . ) Bars invariably are on the inside bend of river ; velocity of water carries it to the outside of bend ; channel on outside of short bend , when river becomes straight or starts to make a reverse bend , between the two bends there is a crossing ; flattens out and spreads over river . ( R . 2336 . ) In 1921 , saw no boats on San Juan while there ; no ferryboat at Mexican Hat . Took two men down to Lees Ferry , from the mouth of the San ( Juan Tua-n Tuan ) distance 70 miles . . From , Lees Ferry back , used motor boat , equipped with stern wheel , Sterling engine , Ford differential ; ; boat was 22 ft . long , 6 ft . wide ; square nose scow boat . . Going down stream to Lees Ferry principal ( diffi- diffi ) culty was sand bars , water was low ; ; sand above mouth of Navajo ( Greek Creek ) . ( R . 2341-2342 . ) ( Up- Up ) stream from Lees Ferry , trip consumed four days . . ( d' d ) Encountered channel crossings just above Last Chance Creek ; waded trying to find channel ; ; one |