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Show 4153 McDonald- D 2173 Q At ons time in your life had you been a sailor? A Yes, and I have run the Mississippi river from St. Louis up and down quits a while on the old Dan Hine,-- Captain Joe Quinn. Q Just tell me about the progress of this trip from Greenriver, Utah, down to the junction with the Grand river. A We run along feeling out the channel. The channel down through there is arbitrary, down through Green river. It is different from most any other river. Where the channel should be, it will be shoal water, and have to change your channel. You will get aground. We got aground every once in a while, and we would have to get cut and feel around, hold on to the boat and drag it along to find our channel. Q About how often would those occasions occur when you got on the sand bar? A They occurred sometimes four or five times a day; sometimes not so much; depended on the stretch of the river. Q Of course I am talking about the stretch of the river from Greenriver, Utah, down to the junction. A Down to the mouth of the San Rafael it is pretty bad in places. Q What do you mean by " pretty bad"? A There was so many bars, we had to cross the river from one side to another, hunting a channel, and would get |