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Show 64 : ( 'he he lie ) , wasinthe water most of the time between ( Green- Green ) river , Utah , and the mouth of the San Rafael ( ( Excep- Excep ) ( -tion tion ) 27 ) and hardly an hour a day ( he lie ) was not in the ( -river river ) pulling the boat off bars below the ( mouth moqth ) of ( 'the the ) San Rafael . Ross ( Abs . R . vol . 2 , p . 1055 ) ( dis- dis ) cusses rowing and towing boat upstream and ( Abs . . R . . , vol . 2 , p . 1058 ) rowing with two sets of oars ( up- up ) stream and also towing the boat from Valentine Bottom to ( Wimmers7 Wimmers' Wimmers ) Ranch ; made an average of 9 miles a day . Loper ( Abs . R . vol . 1 , p . 623 ) , ( Kirk- Kirk ) patrick ( Abs . R . vol . 1 , p . 700 ) discuss typical , operations of rowboats in this stretch . Colonel Dent made only 5 miles in 5 hours upstream with one of the small boats of the Moab Garage and could find no ( crossing -crossing crossing ) where the water was deep enough for him ( -to to ) proceed . ( Abs . R . vol . 1 , p . 344 . ) It is ( signifi- signifi ) cant that all of the trips with small boats ( betAveen between ) Moab and ( Greemiver Greenriver ) were made down the Green and up the Colorado rather than vice versa . ( See . ( Appendix Apopendix ) to brief , p . 151 . ) Kolb hit sand bars in , Stillwater and Labyrinth Canyons ( Abs . R . vol . 1 , p . 214 ) Hite ( had bad ) to take two cows off a flatboat to . get it off sand bars . ( Abs . PL vol . 2 , p . 908 . ) Loper hit many bars . ( Abs . R . vol . 1 , p . 633 . ) ( Richard- Richard ) son in motor boat could not ( avoid avoirl ) the bars . ( Abs . R . vol . 2 , p . ( 935 9305 ) . ) Sawyer was stuck in the Marguerite ( Abs . R . vol . 1 , p . 601 . ) For other instances see Appendix to brief , p . ( 151 1-51 ) . Colorado ( River-Castle RiverCastle ) Creek to ( Moab J11oab ) , Utah ( M . R . 73 to 75 , Exception 18 ) . ( -In In ) this stretch of the river , experiments with boats was confined principally to row boats . All boats had trouble at Nigger Bill |