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Show Record nine- ten A. M. on August 27. That night we camped at mile 30 1/ 2, 1289 arriving there at six- forty- five P. M. During that day and while traveling up that 30 1/ 2 miles of river I made observations and inves-tigations of the river and made some notations on my maps. We stopped for lunch at mile 8. The next morning we left at seven- fifty- five A. M. and 1290 arrived Moab before dark. We stopped for lunch and I made a few notations going up. I observed much more water in the river from North wash down to Lees Ferry than from Moab to the confluence. 1291 In the boat I had probably seventy- five per cent of the mileage could have been made up stream; the other twenty- five per cent there would have been places where unquestionably it would 1292 have been necessary to get out of the boat and help it. I was a U. S. Geological survey boat with an out- board motor. the motor was as good as out- board motors go. We had considerable trouble 1293 getting it started at times. It operated on a hinge. There were shoals and rapids that the boat could no pass going up stream with this particular engine. 1294 Some of the rapids near North wash were the worst local difficulties for up stream navigation. I am under the impression that the worst rapid we encountered was at mile 156 1/ 2, but that may not have been the one. By " worst local difficulties" I mean that that was a point at which there were some short pieces of river that would have been more difficult to get through per foot of length than any other portion. All of the difficulties we en-countered were local. 1295 Elliott J. Dent testified on examination by Special Master as follows: From my personal experience and my study of river conditions, the rivers of the Southwest are very heavily ladened with sand. The rivers of the Northwest are not so heavily lade, although they do carry some sand. The Mississippi, Arkansas and Red Rivers are heavy silt carriers. Most of the Western rivers carry |