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Show to reach it and would run on 19 to a sand bar ; but more often it was because we did not know just where the channel and deep water ( -was was ) . We had less trouble in ( Stillvvater Stillwater ) than in Labyrinth Canyon . Below Double Bowknot we overtook my brother and tied his boat on one side and one of the other boats on the other side of the motor boat and propelled them all with the one outboard motor . We arrived at the mouth of the Green River on September 15 . From the ( junc- junc ) tion of the rivers down to the first cataract in Cataract Canyon , I recall having no trouble with sand bars . ( R . 824-6 , , Vol . 5 . ) The rapids in Cataract Canyon change very little , and I found conditions about the same as in 1911 . ( R . 830 , Vol . 5 . ) We did not line the boats through Cataract Canyon , except at the rapid in Dark Canyon . ( R . 832 , Vol . 5 . ) One boat was stuck on a rock and was overturned while pulling it to shore . Cataract Canyon is exceptional in that it is possible to take a boat out at every rapid and get it around the rapid if you wish to do so . ( R . 836-7 , ( Vol 'Vol Vol ) . 5 . ) From Narrow Canyon to the mouth of the San Juan we ( encount encount- encount ) ered about the same incidents as on my former trip . ( R . 841 , Vol . 5 . ) Tom Wimmer met us in a motor boat a short ( dis- dis ) tance above ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing ; he was engaged in delivering supplies ( -to to ) the government engineers . ( R . 845 , Vol . 5 . ) Wimmer is a . river man ( and -and and ) always had boats scattered at different places . ( R . 847 , Vol . 5 . ) From the mouth of ( the ithe ) San Juan to Lees Ferry we had two boats carrying 1500 pounds of supplies . We encountered sand bars where the boats would get stuck for a ( short -short short ) time , but we would push them off . ( R . 850 , Vol . 5 . ) Henry E . Blake testified : My only experience on the San Juan River was in 1921 . ( I 1 ) helped launch boats for the government survey party at a point about 4 miles below Bluff . The boats were 16 feet long , with a ( 4-foot 4foot ) beam , and a ( 1-foot 1foot I-foot Ifoot ) draft . On the first day we went down the river to Butler Wash and I took a boat down stream to a point just at the Narrows , where one or two other ( mem- mem ) bers of the party got in the boat and we rode through the Narrows . I did not run on to any sand bars and had no difficulty in operating the boat in that stretch . ( R . 878-885 , Vol . 5 . ) After that I would use the boat once in a while rowing across the river , but my next actual boating ( experi- experi ) ence was through the canyon above Clay Hill Crossing . Our boats were heavily loaded and there were sand waves but |