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Show Record how long my father owned the other power boat before he bought the 936 1909 boat. The 1909 trip was taken in comparatively low water. The purpose of this trip I made with Mr. Hoyt in 1928 was not definitely made known to me, except that I could guess and my judgment would tell me. I soon learned that it was for the purpose of discovering and locating as many sand bars as there were 937 in the river. If it were a typical bar Mr. Hoyt proceeded to examine it, see what kind of a bar it was, where it began and where 938 it ended, and all such features. The entire bed of most any river is irregular with varying elevations in the bed. I purposely put my boat at a position where Mr. Hoyt could see and study the bar. On a great number of occasions I steered my boat onto a bar that was not submerged in order to permit Mr. Hoyt to make observations. I encountered bars in that manner very, very many times on the trips 941 on both rivers whenever it was necessary to land. All told I have lived on the banks of the Colorado River at Moab about five years. Going down the Green River I rode the boat. I was not facing up stream all of the time. While drifting around I would be looking around and when I was rowing in quieter stretches my back would be down stream, expect my head turned over my shoulder in order to steer my course. The other two men that were with me 942 had never been on the river before, as far as I am aware. When I answered counsel that you could not take a boat back up the Green River from the mouth of the San Rafael I meant that the water was too swift to row again, you could not take it up 943 by rowing. Poling the boat never entered my mind. I have had no experience in poling boats. 944 On that part of the trip from Greenriver down to the San Rafael the water was lower at that time than it had been at any time since the early part of May of that year. I started on my San Juan expedition on the 18th day of 945 July, 1921. The portage I made at a rapid 11 miles above the - 130- |