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Show Record small winding rapids that were full of boulders and hard to negotiate; and maybe two of three times a day, at places where we could not make turns at the speed at which we were running, we would run out on the banks and in the gravel and get stuck. Even where there were no rapids we would run on to bars. " There were certain channels that would let a boat through, if you fol-lowed them and could follow them; we would have to get out and find them." We would decide on a place to run through and probably would get through all right, but maybe we would have to drag the boats a little or push them; then for a few miles we would have nice smooth water of sufficient depth and then would again have trouble. We would find these conditions every few miles though Glen Canyon and in the upper canyons above Cataract 1995 Canyon and though the Green River. Between Hite and Lee's Ferry we encountered quite a number of rapids or rough water, including 1996 Tickaboo and Trachyte Rapids. All of these rapids are at the mouth of side washes. The river changed all the time in stage of water. Cass Hite had trouble keeping his ditch open so he could get water enough for his placer mining operations; or the water would be too high and wash his flumes and trestle away. Next year we observed that his ditch had been filled up with 1997 water, sand and gravel. Part of the flume was still there. Our party stopped over Christmas at Lee's Ferry, arriving there on December 25. I don't know where Mr. Stanton picked up the survey line, but think it was two or three days before we got into Lee's Ferry at some point below the San Juan. I was a rod man. 1998 Close surveying ceased at Lee's Ferry, beyond which point we took pictures and observed the country along the river. Mr. Stanton called it surveying with photographs. We continued our journey 1999 clear though to the gulf of California. Mr. Nims took the photo-graphs until he met with his accident. Our party was resupplied at Lee's Ferry, the supplies having come overland to that point. 2000 We had sixteen hundred or seventeen hundred pounds of supplies in |