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Show There was quite a bit of ( sand-waving sandwaving ) 100 shallow places ( which whidh ) were not very good going with our flat bottom boat . ( "We We ) got stuck a time or ( two" two ) on sand bars . After reaching the Colorado River we continued on up the river in our boat to Hanson Creek . We took out no gold from the San Juan . ( R . 3322-5 , Vol . 18 . ) The lowest stage of water on the Colorado and San Juan rivers is in December , January and February . ( R . 3325 , Vol . 18 . ) So far as shallow water and sand bars are concerned , the difficulties of navigation , as I observed them on the Green River , are very much greater than on the Colorado River between the foot of Cataract Canyon and the ( Utah- Utah ) Arizona line ; there are many more interruptions to ( down down- down ) ¬ stream travel on the Green than on the Colorado below Cataract Canyon . I have never made an upstream journey on the Green River but I would say that it would require more power to go upstream on the Colorado River than on the Green River . Aside from the matter of power , I would say that the difficulties of navigating upstream on the Green River would be greater than on the lower Colorado . ( R . 3326-31 , Vol . 18 . ) I have probably used and operated fifty different boats on the Colorado River . It is generally true that any changes that occur in the channel of the Colorado River occur while the river is rising and settling during the high water season ( -I I ) refer to the big changes . Where there is a gravel bottom the channel does not change much , but where there is silt it changes in low water ; in high water you ( don't dont ) know where those places are ; the small changes occur where the water is still . It has ( been 'been been ) my experience that after the water starts to rise there is a channel and after the water subsides the channel will remain pretty much as it was ; your channel is then formed for the season , and unless some ( con- con ) dition comes that changes the height of the water , your channel will remain pretty well as it was . ( R . 3335-7 , Vol . 18 . ) Levi Kendrick testified : I took one row boat trip from ( Wolverton's Wolvertons ) Ranch to Three Canyons , four or five miles below on the Green River . I ( don't dont ) think we had any ( diffi diffi- diffi ) ¬ culties . The only boat I know of at Green River now is at Mr . ( Bedere's Bederes ) , six miles below town . I know Mr . Wolverton has taken supplies by boat to his ranch but otherwise ( don't dont ) know of merchandise being delivered by boat . ( R . 3338-41 , Vol . 18 . ) |