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Show . ( 249 "49 ) opinion faulty construction of the boat . Repaired on the spot . ( ( B R ) . ( 885-887 885--887 ) . ) Operated boat carrying engineers across river near Clay Gulch ; heavy sand waves 3 or 4 ft . high - went through rapids Piute Creek or Canyon ; went through rapids eleven miles above ( mouth mouVa ) of San Juan ; portaged around this rapid ; river bed was choked with boulders , quite large rocks , banks first sandy beach , then ( drift-strewn driftstrewn ) , ( boulder-strewn boulderstrewn ) body of ground . JR . 888 . ) Dragged the boat by man strength . ( R . 889 . ) Numerous sand bars encountered some stretches of river above Clay Hill Crossing , above and at the crossing . In boating rapids provisions portaged around when boats were portaged . ( R . 889-890 . ) Last stretch of river many sand bars . Saw no boats other than those of party . Saw no placer miners . ( Prom From ) mouth of San Juan River he and Bert Loper took two of the boats to ( Hole-in-the-Rock HoleintheRock Hole-iii-the-Rock HoleiiitheRock ) , distance 4 or 5 miles , and returned to camp . Survey continued to Lees ( Perry Ferry ) . ( R . 890-891 . ) Party started from Bluff 19th of July 1921 and , , , completed trip December , ( 1921 192-1 ) . ( R . 892-893 . ) During latter part of July and first part of August , six different floods were encountered ; made boating difficult . At foot of Honaker Bend , flood caused sand waves ten feet high , stopped ( progress proaress ) of boats for a day . ( R . 893-894 . ) Pack train supplied party with provisions , at Clay Hill Crossing . Loper and Miser compelled to drag boat up to cache of supplies and brought it |