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Show Record distance of 25 miles from Moab, and there abandoned the boat and 1350 walked back to Moab. I had difficulty getting on sand bars coming down in the row boat. 1351 My next trip was in January, 1926, with a Moab Garage Company boat, about 16 feet long an 5 feet wide, with draft of 12 to 14 inches, and motored by a Ford engine. The propellor was properly enclosed with a grill. On that trip I had one man with me and we went into the head of Cataract Canyon. Starting out at Moab we were fairly heavily loaded. We commenced to encounter trouble after leaving mile- post 39, which is the second camp of the 1352 Midwest Refining Company. Prior to that time we were riding on the large freight boat of the Moab Garage and trailed our boat. At mile- post 39 we started to drive our boat under its own power all the way. Going down both the big boat and the small boat encountered trouble with sand bars at eleven different places. I 1353 had this United States Geological Survey map, water supply paper 396, with me and kept a record. I know where the main sand bars are and I checked up at the time I went down. I mapped the whole way going down, for two purposes, first, to find if there were any geological structures and to study the geology down the Colorado River below Moab, and, second, I made it a point to find out the navigability of the stream as far as the mouth of Indian Creek, be-cause we had acreage which we hoped to drill in that territory. From mile- post 2, above the mouth of the Green River, we had no trouble down into Cataract Canyon. From the head waters of Cataract Canyon we turned around and went back up to the confluence and then up the Green River. We encountered sand bars at eleven places on the Green River. At about mile- post 18 1/ 2 we encountered swift water and again at mile- post 19 1/ 2 we encountered very high stream velocity. 1354 On neither the Colorado or Green Rivers was it necessary for anybody to go overboard and push. The waters were too cold; they were full of slow ice the whole time. On the Green River I |