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Show trip sand bars encountered 159 all way up ; broke ( pro- pro ) pellers ; ( had liad ) same troubles on second trip down as far as ( Valentine's Valentines ) Bottom , considerable getting back ; , just one sand bar after another ; no defined ( channel cliannel ) ; no dock ; sand bars changing at all times , could not keep track of ( them tliem ) . ( R . 720-757 . ) 1906 , Wolverton . - ( M . R . 63 , Ab . R . Vol . . 2 , pp . 1378 , 1393-1394 : ) Made one trip ; then was experimenting ; had ( con- con ) stant strain dodging rocks , obstacles , sand bars , after Wheeler quit as pilot he was not always successful in dodging rocks and sand bars ; might have used poles or oars ; sand bars most troublesome in July and last of August . ( R . 5402-5405 . ) 1906 , 1907j 1912 , Wimmer . - ( M . R . 63 , 70 Ab . R . Vol . 2 , pp . 1196-1198 , 1207 , 1210 , 1214 , 1222 : ) Run Marguerite , every time he wished except when ice in river ; did not draw much empty ; never had any trouble , never stuck on sand bar ; always got through ( R . 4735-4750 , 4770-4771 , 4782-4789 , 4802- 4804 ; all time on river with boats did not have to get out in water 25 times in aggregate ( R . 4813-4814 ) . 1907 , Loper . - ( M . R . 64 , Ab . R . Vol . 1 , pp . 627-628 : ) ( Hit IEt ) riffles below Greenriver , sand bars below mouth San Rafael in Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons , running aground ( R . 2347-2348 ) ; channel spreads . out ; trouble because no channel to navigate ; . not possible to observe deepest water ; many times no , channel for rowboat ; from Dirty Devil to Hite same old conditions ; mouth North West bars , one little |