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Show River to a point below ( 243 20-413 ) the Rio Grand pumping plant that furnishes water for the station at Cisco . The canoe was eighteen feet long , three and ( one- one ) ( half lialf ) foot beam , weighed about two hundred pounds , carried a load of not over three hundred pounds , ( excluding -excluding excluding ) the men , and it drew four and ( one-half onehalf ) inches of water loaded , including operators . ( R . 858-861 . ) ( From Prom ) the Cisco pumping station down to Moab , sand bars and swift water , silt and quicksand , ( were -were were ) encountered ; the canoe getting stuck on the sand bars as usual . When the river enters the canyon ithas a more rapid descent and numerous riffles occur in these places . The water is shallow and the oars would drag bottom . The canoe was ( trav- trav ) eling fast and difficulty ( in '111 ) making the run through ( the fhe ) swift water without striking the shore was had ( time tinie ) after time . This condition of swift shallow , water commences about ( twenty twdnty ) miles below the Cisco pumping plant ( and cand ) continues on down to a ( short -short short ) distance above Moab . ( R . 859-862 . ) There were a few riffles in the section where ( Do- Do ) lores River enters the Grand River and he stopped at a ranch near the Dolores River on the first trip . The run from Dolores River to Moab was made in a day and d half , according to his memory . ( Com- Com ) plete notes were not kept after getting out of the swift water . He arrived at Moab about the 25th of August , 1916 . Upon arrival at Moab the canoe was shipped back to Thompson by automobile truck and from |