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Show least twice . Small boat ( -went went ) 47 on aheadulauy ( times tinies ) to locate channel ; lie only shows the times ho actually observed big boat was stuck ; course of ( liver river ) to mile 20 , winding between rock channels , alternating side bars , with crossing bars ( between' between between ) the bends , and almost invariably the crossing ( bars' bars ) gave trouble with operation of boat . ( R . 215-216 . ) At mile 18.4 the large boat stuck ; it stuck twice , ( between bet-ween between ) miles 19 and 20 . ( ( E R ) . 216 . ) Plate 18 , Compl . ( Exli Exh ) . 10 , shows course of ( river xiver ) from mile ( 21.5 9-1.5 ) to point above oil ( operations operations- operations ) through to mile 50 above the Green River . ( R . 217 . ) Trouble at mile 18.3 was channel was not against bank where ordinarily it should have been ; trouble at miles 19.4 and 19.6 was result of the crossing bar . Reached mile 22 , noon Sunday , October 20th . At mile 22 , ran into crossing bar and a side bar , formed by deposit of material washed in from right . Big boat got stuck at that point . Plowed its way through , bed of river so soft that increased current at side of boat tends to form a channel so that if it , stays there long enough it will form a channel . Between miles 22 and 23 and 24 , there is a large . sand bar ; it is shown in river survey of 1912 ; it is ( now 110-Nv 110Nv ) grown with willows and is 12 ft . above river . Did not run into that . ( R . 217-218 . ) At mile 25.8 both boats made wide detour to avoid , what Mr . Baldwin claimed were rocks in river . Between mile 24 and 26 , had considerable trouble ( finding Ending ) a channel . Rock walls much wider there |