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Show channels in that place , ( 317 31.7 ) the deep water ( sometimes soinetimos ) being in one and sometimes in another . Between miles 39 and 43 , near the Shafer well No . 2 , he has been stuck a number of times because of shallow water , there being not less than three ( chan chan- chan ) nels in that place and the deep water is not in the same channel always . Between miles 32 and 33 , which is below the J . H . Shafer well he has been stuck a number of ( times thnes ) . , ( Prom From ) mile 32 down to mile 37 at Lockhart ( Can Can- Can ) ¬ yon , little difficulty was encountered except right at Lockhart Canyon where he had trouble with two channels . The troubles ( recounted rewinted ) by him were encountered principally during July , August , December , and January or during the lowest water . During the winter he was troubled with floating ice and heavy galvanized iron was put on the front of the boat to ( keep keel ) ice from ( chewing cbewing ) the wood . In February and March trouble was frequently encountered in the stretches of the river pointed out on the map Compl . Exhibit 10 by him . Some trouble was also had in the month of April . ( R . 1172-1178 . ) In April had rains that would make these washes , wash some sand into the channel at times , ( remem remem- remem ) ¬ ber one time , think it was in 1927 , during April , thawing weather , there was a big rock fell from ( way Nvay ) up high on a cliff , imagine five ( hundred hund-i-ed hundied ) feet above the river , landed in the river . That later gave |