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Show When we came down the 110 Colorado River in August or September , 1907 , past Castle Creek and on to Moab , we had no trouble getting through the rapid water existing at the two points 1 mentioned , and I would say that you could take a reasonable load of supplies down that stretch of river between Castle Creek and Moab and there ( wouldn't wouldnt ) be any difficulty in arriving down there if you always kept in the current . ( R . 3521-3 , Vol . 19 . ) In all my years of experience on the Green , Colorado and San Juan rivers , I have never lost a boat , and the only serious mishap I have ever had is the occasion I have ( re- re ) ferred to , when my boat carrying my supplies and equipment was loosened by the wind and drifted downstream onto a sand bar , where next day we recovered it with no damage done . ( R . 3528 , Vol . 19 . ) ( When 1AThen ) I returned to the San Juan River , in 1928 , 1 saw . two outfits of placer prospectors there and I saw oil men at different places . ( R . 3528 , Vol . 19 . ) Homer J . Hite testified : I went to ( Kite Hite ) in 1888 . Found a log cabin and half a dozen men there engaged in placer mining . We freighted a boiler and two vacuum pumps to Hite , there loaded them on a scow 20 feet long and 10 feet ( wide' wide ) drawing 5 or 6 inches , and boated them 18 miles down the river to Tickaboo bar in April or May , 1889 . 1 ( didn't didnt ) make that river trip . Before then I had been down in the vicinity of Good Hope and Tickaboo in a row boat . There are a number of rapids on that stretch of river . Coming back upstream with the row boat , we towed most of the way , and i at the rapids had to get out and pull the boat up . ( R . 3560-7 , I Vol . 20 . ) A postoffice was established at Hite in 1889 and I was postmaster . There were about 20 or 25 people , who ! got their mail there , living in an area containing fifty square miles . There were two trappers down the canyon every j winter who got mail at Hite . Six or eight men were ( work- work ) , ' ing at North Wash . I was down there nearly eight years . i ( R . 3568-70 , Vol . 20 . ) During that eight years I went down S the river as far as Aztec Rapids ; that trip was in 1894 . . I think the highest rise we had on the river was 21 or 22 j feet . Rises in the river were occasioned by the melting snow and by freshets , cloudbursts , etc . Spring high water j from melting snows begins in April and ends early in July . . \ ( R . ( 3572-3 3572-0 ) , Vol . 20 . ) During July and August the stage of water is more variable than at any other period . . Any j obstruction in the river would create a change . In ( Sep- Sep ) |