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Show but when we came to the Narrows 59 Mr . Blake did some ( boat boat- boat ) ing . ( R . 2327-9 , Vol . 12 . ) On one occasion when our pack train failed to bring supplies , Mr . Miser and I took a boat up the river 17 miles to Spencer Canyon and brought supplies back down the ( river riv-er river ) in the boat . The stage of water was very low and there were reefs where it was not 4 inches deep . It took us two days to make the upstream trip and one day to come back , pulling the boat a good part of the way down the same as we did going ( up tip ) . At some places we could ride but at lots of places we ( couldn't couldnt ) . At the place where the water was only 4 inches deep we just ended the boat around until we got it across the reef . ( R . 2330-4 , Vol . 12 . ) ( I 1 ) can sum it up generally by saying that throughout this trip we had trouble with sand bars . I then saw no other boats outside ours on the San Juan River . ( R . 2335-6 , Vol . 12 . ) After we reached the Colorado River , I took our cook and recorder down to Lees Ferry , went overland from there to Flagstaff , and brought back another cook and a rod man . The water was very low at that time and running on to a few sand bars constituted about all of our trouble . I went downstream in our boat but came back up in a ( 25-foot 25foot ) motor boat , with a draft of about 18 inches loaded . There were six or seven people on the boat and I also had my row boat . Our most serious difficulty coming upstream was in finding a channel at Last Chance Creek , but we finally got the boat over the sand bar at that point . Later I went down the Colorado River to Lees Ferry and that was my last trip until this month . ( R . 2340-4 , Vol . 13 . ) On September 19 , 1907 , ( I 1 ) left Green River , Utah , on a prospecting trip down the river with Charles Russell and Ed Monette . We had three steel boats , 16 feet long , 18 inches deep , and a ( 4-foot 4foot ) beam , without motors . Down to the mouth of the San Rafael , the only trouble we encountered was striking one riffle and I believe gravel . Through Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons we had trouble at nearly every channel crossing where one or all of us would run aground . I ( couldn't couldnt ) tell by observation where the deepest water was and we daily encountered difficulties with channel ( crossings- crossings ) sometimes several times a day . ( R . 2347-50 , Vol . 13 . ) We only portaged one rapid in Cataract Canyon . ( R . 2351 , Vol . 13 . ) From Narrow Canyon to ( Kite Hite ) we encountered the old conditions ; at North Wash there is only one channel through , which has never changed since I knew the river . I |