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Show pounds of supplies and equipment 66 ; thus loaded the boat had a draft of 9 or 10 inches . ( R . 2487-94 , Vol . 13 . ) We made frequent stops to examine dam sites . I have no recollection of any occasion when both boats were stuck on the same sand bar or at the same time and half the time the two parties there were ( traveling" traveling traveling ) within a few miles of each other . We saw no sand waves . I would say that on this trip one or the other of the boats would get stuck on an average of ( twice tNvice ) in a half ( day's days ) traveling . Because ( two tivo ) boats were traveling in tandem fashion there was the additional weight in handling them and in getting them clear . I only have one distinct recollection of any boatman stepping into the river to help get a boat off a bar but I would say this happened twenty times on the trip . ( R . 2495-9 , Vol . 13 . ) Benjamin D . Harshberger testified : In the winter of 1892-3 I did some mining along the San Juan River and went to the river at Box Canyon , taking supplies ( along" along along ) . I was there about two months and ( didn't didnt ) see any boats on the river when I arrived but later I saw a few boats . ( R . 2500-3 , Vol . 13 . ) In 1902 there was a small excitement there and a considerable amount of drilling in 1904 and ( about abDUt ) 1906 to 1910 . ( I 1 ) put a well ( down dovm ) near Mexican Hat , taking our tools and equipment there overland . ( R . 2503-6 , Vol . 13 . ) ( I 1 ) never knew of any one bringing in machinery in boats and ( don't dont ) know of the Bluff merchants using boats for carrying merchandise , except a ferry boat used for ( cross- cross ) ing the river . There were a few prospectors who came down the river in small boats , but I never saw any of them going back up . Most of the boats I saw on the river belonged to prospectors who came down the San Juan River from ( Farm- Farm ) ington , New Mexico . I have seen sand waves , which usually occur in high storm weather . I have crossed the San Juan at a point 4 miles below Bluff and went across during the month of December without getting my knees wet . ( R . 2507-9 , Vol . 13 . ) In 1906 1907 and 1908 1 went to ( Kite Hite ) on the Colorado , and did some prospecting , ferrying our equipment across the river there and ( hauling" hauling hauling ) it up into White Canyon about 30 miles from the river . We crossed at Hite in a boat and a few times were able to get our animals across so that they only had to swim perhaps 20 feet . ( R . 2509-17 , Vol . 13 . ) Men were placer mining ( along" along along ) quite a stretch of the San Juan River in 1892 . In later years they have gone |