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Show made one trip with it and a ( GS 68 ) row boat from Lees Ferry up to Dandy Crossing with three other men . We had to line the boat a good many times . We stopped on the way to make placer mining locations . When we left we had 500 pounds of provisions . At one rapid the launch ( was vas ) carried on to a rock and turned over ; on two occasions our row boat turned over . ( R . 2533-6 , Vol . 13 . ) On our return journey we had no difficulties , there having been a rise of water Later a larger boat was brought to Lees Ferry ; it was 26 feet long with a ( 5-foot 5foot ) beam , a 2V , - ) ( -foot foot ) draft , and was equipped with a ( 40-horsepower 40horsepower ) gas engine . We took this last mentioned boat and a scow up the river in August , 1910 , to get some coal and were stuck on sand bars about ten times . On the return journey we ran on to sand bars about twice . Going upstream with this boat if you ( didn't didnt ) hit the current just right , the boat would turn around . ( R . 2538-41 , Vol . 13 . We ( didn't didnt ) take a line to shore to assist ( in-getting ingetting ) either the launch or the row boat off from sand bars ; just ( hand-spiked handspiked ) the boat off the bar and let it swing clear . ( R . 2544 , Vol . 13 . ) About a week before I took my boat trip on the San Juan I saw two miners going down that river in a boat ; I judged they were miners from the character of the outfit they had with them . ( R . 2545 , Vol . 13 . ) ( I 1 ) saw sand waves on ( the -the the ) Colorado River but they were usually confined to the center of the stream and most of them were below the mouth of the San Juan River . We had some difficulty in navigating them . ( R . 2549 , Vol . 13 . Lewis ( Ransome Ransovie ) Freeman testified : I am an author ( ex- ex ) plorer and world traveler and have written books concerning several rivers , including the Colorado River . I have found no evidence that the upper Colorado was ever boated by | Indians . ( R . 2553-70 , Vol . 14 . In August and September , 1922 , ( I 1 ) went from Lees Ferry \ to Halls Crossing with a party of six . We had four ( 18-foot 18foot ) ' boats , one equipped with an Elto and three with Evinrude motors , the purpose of the trip being a government survey for dam sites . ( R . 2571-5 , Vol . 14 . ) During the first 6 or 7 miles up from Lees Ferry we had no serious sand bar trouble , except that occasioned by the faults of our own navigation ; next day we made 10 miles upstream with very little difficulty from sand bars ; on the third day there was a very spectacular cloudburst but I ( don't dont ) recall that it had any effect on the river . Mr . Wimmer , who was more |