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Show In addition to these boat trips ( be he ) has ( desottibcd desar-lbad desarlbad ) , ( he lie ) has made other boat trips on the ( San Stan ) ( Juan Jutin ) , both ( up lip ) and down the river . He ( has lias ) traveled from ( closo close ) , to the ( Honaker Hoiialmr ) Trail ( up lip ) and down ( the tlie ) ( river -iver iver ) to the ( head licad ) of the San Juan Canyon , which is ( tho the ) ( mouth moutli ) ( of or ) Chinle . He also believes , ( he lic ) ( has lias ) ( made iiiade ) Ca trip from ( Zalm's Zalms Zalin's Zalins ) ( Camp Canip ) up to the Gable Bar by boat . When ( he lie ) was traveling upstream ( he lie ) would pole and row , and ( sometimes sometinies ) ( when wheni ) ( he lie ) came to a riffle ( he lie ) would tow the boat . ( R . 4463-4464 . ) . He would estimate that ( he lie ) has seen probably about twenty separate parties go down the river by boat from Bluff , and has seen about eight or ten go past his camp , that was in the upper canyon just below Chinle Wash five or six miles . The other trips that ( he be ) has made were usually along in the fall , early winter , and spring ( months nionths ) . Placer miners ( don't dont ) do much work during high water , as the bars are covered up and ( can't cant ) be worked ( veiy verY ) successfully . ( R . 4465 . ) He believes the minimum depth of the channel at points ( he lie ) has seen below ( Chinle Clihile ) Creek would be about three feet . In ( going roiug ) up and down the river 9 he has ( encoun encoun- encoun ) tered difficulties from sand bars , as when he would come out of a box [ canyon ] into open spaces in the ( liver river ) very often ( be he ) would encounter a sand bar in ( the tbe ) middle of the channel and the water would divide and unless ( he lie ) was careful and understood about the sand in the river he would be liable to |