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Show Record the location of the sand bars the same. In that section of the river I had trouble with sand bars nearly all along. 1127 I have been through Cataract Canyon twice. I went through with the Eddy party in 1927 as head boatman. We had con-siderable trouble in the first part of the trip. None of the men 1128 had ever had any experience in navigation. We run the first four rapids with our loads in the boats. The boats were well decked and we could run in pretty big waves with them. We were there in high water so we did not have so many rocks to contend with. At the fifth rapid we had to unload everything and line our boat through. From there on we ran the rapids until we got to the last one, that is Dark Canyon rapid. we lined that one. 1129 The other time I was through Cataract Canyon was with my father when I was a young fellow. I have made three trips through Glen Canyon, one of them when I was a boy. I did not have a great deal of difficulty in taking the Eddy party through Glen Canyon. We found sand bars, but we had real high water, and the sand were covered up. Nearly every day some of the boats would hang on a sand bar. The other time I went down Glen Canyon was with my brother when we went in at North wash for the purpose of taking Mr. 1130 Holland down there who was looking up prospects for running boats. We had some difficulty with sand bars on that trip. At the times I was on the Green River from Greenriver, Utah, to its mouth I did not see any boats engaged in carrying either freight or passengers. From Greenriver, Utah, down to Lees Ferry there are no 1131 ranches except an old one at Hite, now abandoned. At the times I was in Glen Canyon I did not see any boats carrying either freight or passengers. I made the Eddy trip in June, 1927, and the Holland 1132 trip in 1928. On the Holland trip we started at North wash and we carried about 600 pounds in each boat. We did not build our |