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Show 959 They rowed down the channel in boats in places , in fairly low stages of the water , but not in flood stages , . He remembers one particular day that there was a flood , and they wanted to go down the river in boats , but they stayed off the river , because the river was too rough . Other days , there was a time when Bert Loper and he went down the river in a boat , with very little load on it , and they grounded at numerous places . And then they towed the boat upstream and grounded the boat upstream . . ( R . . 3762 . . ) They were grounded right at Piute Farms where the floods caused the main current to ( shift sbift ) . He was camped at Piute Farms for a period of four or five days , but during that time he and Bert Loper had a made a short journey down the river past Piute Farms and then towed the boat back up through that particular portion of the river . The trip spoken of started near Clay Hill Crossing . They wanted to scout ahead to learn something of the , amount of work required to survey below the canyon . . . They went downstream for about a half day , rowing in places , , but the boat would ground sorne . . At . night they camped a short distance north of Nokai Creek . . That was the farthest point down the ( can- can ) yon they went on that particular trip . . ( R . . 3763 . . ) The trip started at Mile 55.5 and stopped at Mile . 44.0' . . The boat was towed back upstream the ( entire- entire ) distance . The boat , , he believes , , did not draw over six or seven inches of water loaded with a light bed |
