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Show 703 inches deep . Observed river bed was sandy and shifting in ilature . ( R . 2671 ) Judged the ( river' river river- river ) at that point about 600 ft . wide and shallow ; ; - . seemed to have number of ( channels charinels ) that would shift . Survey parties on San Juan River in 1924Y 1925.91 and 1926 2 supplied by motor trucks , wagon , and , . pack animals and no supplies by boat . ( R . ( 2672- 2672-- ) 73 . ) A small sectional metal boat , 3 sections , the kind hunters use , at camp . Did not travel any place . in it , just got in to test stability ; boat at camp at . Nokai Canyon . ( ( B R ) . 2673 . ) He was on the Colorado ( Biver River ) , ( between betNTeen ) ( Moab Moab- Moab ) and Lockhart Canyon , in 1926 . He made a trip on . river in May , 1926 , in a small launch of Moab Garage Co , a black boat , about 20 ft . long . ( R . . 2674 . ) Clarence Baldwin and Charles F . Moore in boat ; . took 2V2 to 3 hours to make trip downstream to . Lockhart Canyon , forty miles down from Moab . On sand bars a couple of times and encountered some whirlpools . ( ( B R ) . 2675 . ) Upstream , progress was much slower , as he ( had had- had ) to keep close to shore ; went up to No . 2 well and . 011 to No . 1 well ; trip of 22 miles took all the rest of the day . Going upstream to Moab , propeller was broken on a snag or rock . Beached the boat and repaired it at point above the mouth of Mill Creek , 21 / miles from boat landing . ( R . 2676-77 . . ) |