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Show It would have been impracticable ( 1088 loss ) to have supplied the party by boat because of a deep precipitous canyon . Supplies would have to be carried back from rim eighteen or twenty miles . ( R . 4329- 4330 . ) The river is accessible in a few places from Clay Hill Crossing down to where he was working . Where the rim was accessible to the river below Clay Hill , they used one boat for carrying supplies along the river , wherever walls of river made it practical , from one point to another . ( R . 4330- 4331 . ) He was with the party from September , 1924 , until May , 1925 ; waded the river in a number of places and never saw any point that was less than waist deep in the channel . Did not have any ( diffi- diffi ) culty with sand bars when ( carrying -carrying carrying ) supplies in the boat . ( R . 4332-4333 . ) Used boats at Nokai in crossing men and ( sup- sup ) plies , and traversing the river up and down for three or four miles . ( R . 4333 . ) At Piute Mesa , used boat in crossing men and supplies and in carrying supplies upstream for three or four miles . ( R . 4333 . ) He was again on and adjacent to the San Juan River from December , 1925 , until May , 1926 . In very few places it was practicable to use the boat . The boat used was a metal boat . ( R . 4334-35 . ) It was 12 or 14 feet long , 3 or 4 feet beam , sides \ % feet high , as he remembers . |