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Show ( I 1 ) could . ( May Alay ) and June are 156 the high water months . ( R . 4967-8 , Vol . 28 . ) ( I 1 ) have only noticed very slight changes in the channel down there ; a flood might bring in a sand bar but it would not be in the main channel and these changes did not have any effect that you would notice on the river bed or the bars . ( R . 4968-9 , Vol . 28 . ) ( Thomas Thoinas ) Fothenngham testified : I am 62 years old and was on the Colorado River in 1888 and 1889 . We hauled lumber , supplies tools and machinery down to ( Hole- Hole ) ( in-the-Rock intheRock ) , there built a boat 38 feet long and 16 or 18 feet wide with two decks . We slept on the lower deck and had most of our provisions down there ( , . ) On the upper deck we had a carpenter shop and ( blacksmith's blacksmiths ) shop , with anvil and tools and did our cooking on that deck . We loaded on to the boat a tub 5 feet high and 6 or 8 feet in circumference which had four paddles and used it in our placer operations . We also had a hydraulic pump , screens , two amalgamating boxes with seven amalgamators in each . The boat had a load of two or three tons . We also built a small skiff . After we got our boats built and loaded , we started down the river in December , 1888 , first stopping at a bar 8 miles ( be- be ) low . While working that bar we had additional supplies shipped overland to ( Hole-in-the-Rock HoleintheRock ) and brought them down to the bar in our small boat . We next took our boats and cargo down to a bar located 10 ( miles railes ) below the mouth of the San Juan River and worked that bar for about two months . One member of our party ( went vent ) farther on down the river in the skiff and located another bar 15 or 20 miles farther down where we could use the hydraulic pump . The rest of us ( didn't didnt ) want to go downstream with the ( big -big big ) boat because it was then high water , but he insisted and we started down . The high water made it impossible for us to handle the big boat . It was so big and bulky that we ( couldn't couldnt ) pull it in and make a landing there and we ( con- con ) tinued on down the river , landing just above Lees Ferry . We made a little money in our operations . While we were there on the river two men came downstream in a boat and stayed with us overnight . I also saw three different ! outfits of trappers . Two different boats with two trappers ! in each boat were going downstream when we saw them < and another boat with two trappers was going upstream . The first trappers we saw had a load of furs and the other ( two parties had furs but not so many as the first party . Our |