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Show 4443 Marrs- D 2463 of the river, the locations of the river where you noted the greatest changes in the shifting of the sandbars? A I don't believe I could, outside of trying to commit the channel to memory as I went by each time and remember it for the next trip; I didn't pay any attention to mileage; always used a marker on a rock, or something, to indicate where there was a bad bar; sometimes put up a few stones on the bank, if we got stuck there. Q Can you locate any of those bars from the side washes or canyons? A Yes, we could tell about where the bar would be from the river bends. Q I mean, can you tell us now, from memory? A Be a bar every mile or two we would encounter. When a bar would form, naturally that would be sort of a dam in the river; the river would be a little higher above that than it was below. After we got over this bar we had good going until we would find sufficient elevation and run out of that water and hit another bar; sort of in stair- steps, like. Q This boat was subsequently changed to another type of boat? A After we had tried a few trips up the river with this propeller, the sand sucked into the propeller, and the rocks, and finally locked it and broke the propeller, the reverse |