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Show Record inches, loaded about eight inches, 1000 pounds, not including the men. I was employed as boatman or rod man. We stopped numerous 900 times each day on our trip from Green River, Wyoming, down, and ex- 901 perienced the usual difficulties of swift water and rapids in 907 places and running on to rocks and sand bars as far as Greenriver, Utah. There are stretches above Greenriver, Utah, where a power boat could be run up stream. I have seen changes in the condition of the river in and about Greenriver since I have been familiar with it from 1916 to 1928. I have noticed a great deal of land has been carried away on the left side of the river above the Green River bridge. The river had changed its course and widened until there are a good 910 many sand bars in low water. A crossing bar is a bar which makes out at the bends of the river as contrasted with a bar which may be found in a straight stretch. We found such bars quite frequently in the Greeen River. 911 In September of October I went with Mr. Hoyt from Greenriver, Utah, around and up to Moab by boat. The boat was a semi- flat- bottom boat with a motor, with a draft unloaded of 3 inches and probably 8 or 9 inches when heavily loaded. We took about 600 pounds of goods and one passenger besides the oarsman. The boat was 18 feet long and somewhat over 4 feet wide. 913 In putting out from Greenriver, Utah, we drifted through quiet water for something less than a mile. Here we ran through a riffle, below which the river spreads out, and I ran onto a sub-merged sand bar in trying to land. I finally worked the boat off the bar and went on, and I made my first map of a crossing bar. I attempted to wafe out to this bar, which did not cross the full width of the river, but left a channel on the right hand side. The water became too swift for me to wade when about waist deep, 914 and I could not reach the bar to made soundings. We proceeded on to where we came to a small island and a large island, with a narrow, swift channel to the right of the small island. We took the narrow channel and had a swift ride |