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Show ( obsorved observed ) that different stages ( 118 113 ) , of the water caused a ( rear- rear ) ( rmiffomont rangemont ) of the sand bars and after high water or floods down side canyons there would be a change in the channel of the river . I ( wouldn't wouldnt ) say that the changing was daily , ( weekly wookly ) or monthly . The sand is working continually . I have seen sand waves there . ( R . 3624-7 , Vol . 20 . ) 1 went to Hite in 1905 , farmed there until September , 1914 , getting our water from Trachyte Creek . We had difficulty with the ice once . I have seen a lot of ice ( floating loating ) down in the winter time and when it gets into a , small place and freezes it sometimes gives difficulty . Almost every year there will be ice gorges . ( R . 3628-9 , Vol . 20 . ) ( I 1 ) have ridden horses across the river at Dandy Crossing in winter but never at any other time . ( R . ( 3632 130632 ) , Vol . 20 . ) They spent four days working on the engine of Mr . ( Stanton's Stantons ) launch at Lees Ferry but they ( didn't didnt ) get it ( run- run ) ning ; that is , it would run , but not in the water , and after we got started on the trip it ( didn't didnt ) run at all . ( R . 3633-4 , Vol . 20 . ) There was a placer boom on the San Juan River and those placer miners came on down to the Colorado River . I remember one or two parties came up the Colorado as far as Hite in small boats . ( R . 3635 , Vol . 20 . ) ( I 1 ) made one boat trip down to Lees Ferry with a man named Turner right after high water in 1909 or 1910 , ( who vho ) was a prospector and a ( "river river tiriver ) rat , " and we had a very good boat that Mr . Stone had left at our place . In 1905 ( I 1 ) made a boat trip to Lees Ferry with a man by the name of Wyschuhn , for the purpose of relocating some claims . I think we could have made the trip in three days if we had kept going ; we had no ( acci- acci ) dents but we stopped to make locations . ( R . 3639-43 , Vol . 20 . ) After Turner and I reached Lees Ferry , Turner took his boat back up the river and I later saw him at Hite with that boat . ( R , 3646-7 , Vol . 20 . ) ( Lester Lestei- Lestei ) A . ( Shaiv Shaw ) testified : In 1914 ( I 1 ) was employed as boatman by the U . S . Reclamation Service with the ( Richard Richard- Richard ) ¬ son party on a salary and I also furnished boats . I had a 14 or ( 16-foot 16foot ) motor boat called ( "Belle Belle ) of Shannon / ' which drew 6 or 8 inches of water empty . I launched the boat at Green River , Utah , went down to ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) Ranch where freight and equipment had been loaded on a barge , and continued thence down the river with the party between Green River , Utah , and ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) Ranch . Particularly as I was alone and knew nothing of ( the t1le ) river , I frequently got |