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Show 97 in ( May "Tklay Tklay ) , but we ( had bad ) no difficulty coming downstream . . ( R . 3272-7 , Vol . 17 . ) After the high water goes down it leaves a channel if you can find it , and the channel will remain until a flood comes in from some side canyon and starts the silt moving , after which flood you have to hunt and find a place to go through ; for that reason we get on the bars . Such change may come over night . ( R . 3277-8 , Vol . 17 . ) In 1895 , we operated on the New Year bar and Moquie bar , during that period boating our supplies from Hanson Creek . In 1896 or 1897 , ( I 1 ) bought the Shock bar , which we called the Independence bar , located ten miles below ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing , boating our first supplies down from Hanson Creek , and later from ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing . When the wind was in the right direction , we would sail our boats . I had ten men working for me at Shock bar . We boated our outfit down when the water was rising . I had seven boats and a raft , and one of two ( 24-foot 24foot ) boats was loaded with iron ; in going over Bull Frog Rapid I had a boat sink but it was my own fault . ( "Other Other ) than that , it was the only trouble I had , and I consider that my own carelessness . " ( R . 3278-82 , ( Yol Vol ) . 17 . ) In May , when the water was high , I loaded ( sixty- sixty ) odd sacks of oats on a big raft at ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing and went down 15 miles below , intending to catch the raft , but when it arrived there were only sixteen sacks left . ( R . 3283 , Vol . 17 . ) In the fall of that year , I went downstream with another raft quite heavily loaded , and with the very low stage of water had quite a time at Lake Canyon , having to get in the water and pry the raft off the rocks . The depth at that ledge varied from nothing to over my head . By watching you could get a small row boat over the ledge if it ( wasn't wasnt ) too long and ( didn't didnt ) draw more than a foot of water , but we had to pry our raft off at two or three places , and once unloaded it for maybe 100 yards . In 1894-5 , there was something over a hundred prospectors along the river from Hite to ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing and more than a hundred signers to our petition for a postoffice . ( R . 3284-7 , Vol . 17 . . ) In the fall of 1896 or 1897 , Ed Meskin and I made a trip to Lees Ferry in a small row boat . Below the San Juan we encountered a lot of sand waves and at a lot of places had trouble finding our way through and would mistake the channel and get on bars ; almost always we found a channel . We then turned around and came back up the river from |