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Show and the confluence . ( R . 1290 28 , Vol . 7 . ) Most of the western rivers carry sand in ( varying1 varying ) quantities and are subject to precipitation from melting snow and also from heavy rains in the late summer . The Missouri River below Kansas City , during freshets , builds bars , cuts banks and changes considerably , and if it was never dredged the maximum depth in low water over some of those bars would be 3 feet . ( R . 1296-8 , Vol . 7 . ) Carrol Edivard Dobbin testified : I am with the U . S . G . S . In 1926 ( I 1 ) was on the Colorado from Moab to the junction and up Green River one mile . ( R . 1308-9 , Vol . 7 . ) During that summer I ( was -was was ) supervising four field parties , two of which were working south of the railroad line , and I had occasion to visit the country in the ( pie-shaped pieshaped ) area south and lying between the Green and Colorado Rivers . ( R . 1310 , Vol . 7 . ) ( I 1 ) took a trip down the Colorado to the junction with J . B . Reeside , Jr . , between August 4 and 10 , 1926 , in a ( 16-foot 16foot ) Evinrude motor boat , in which we had two rolls of bedding , supplies for a week , at least 25 gallons of gasoline and our cameras and surveying instruments . We had sand bar trouble and got stuck at some places coming back upstream ( where -where where ) we had no difficulty going ( down- down ) stream . We were examining the country , collecting fossils , noting its geology , taking photographs , and would stop two , three or four hours at a place . ( R . 1318-23 , Vol . 7 . ) This was my only boat trip on the Colorado River except one former trip from Maob down to the Shafer Well . If I had been familiar with the channel of the river I would in all probability have avoided a great deal of our trouble . ( R . 1327-1334 , Vol . 7 . ) ( I 1 ) have no recollection of being stuck or encountering difficulty at any place coming upstream on this trip where we had met with no difficulty doing downstream . ( R . 1335 , Vol . 7 . ) Harmj Aurand testified : I am a geologist employed by Midwest Refining Company of Denver . ( R . 1338-9 , Vol . 7 . ) I have gone by boat from Moab to the head of Cataract Canyon and also on the Green River from its mouth to ( Mile- Mile ) post 34 . ( I 1 ) have been below Moab in a boat on five different occasions , twice on the big scow of the Moab Garage ( Com Com- Com ) pany , once in another of their boats , and twice in a still different boat . My first trip was in a row boat and I had difficulty with sand bars . ( R . 1348-50 , Vol . 7 . ) On my trip in the smaller Moab Garage ( power-boat powerboat ) we commenced |