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Show 154 with a ( 4-horsepower 4horsepower ) engine for bringing up one load of supplies and also for ( carrying" carrying carrying ) wood ; that scow was 14 feet wide and 28 or 30 feet long . I took loads of stuff to trade to the Indians for blankets , baskets and pottery . I would ferry the Indians across the river and after we had finished trading would take them and what they had back across the stream . ( R . 4926-30 , Vol . 28 . ) ( I 1 ) have sailed up all portions of the river between Halls Crossing and ( Kite Hite ) except a ( 4-mile 4mile ) stretch above Red Canyon . I did no sailing going downstream . ( R . 4931-2 , Vol . 28 . ) ( I 1 ) was away from the river for about a year , returning in 1904 or 1905 to the Moquie Bar . At that time I took a trip in the Lucy B . to Olympia Bar , bringing back camp equipment . I did some work for Cass ( Kite Hite ) at Tickaboo and Red Canyon , making two or three river trips from Red Canyon to Dandy ( Cross Cross- Cross ) ¬ ing for supplies . I made a raft trip with a load of from 1000 pounds ( lo to ) a ton on the raft , towing the raft behind a 16- foot boat . ( R . 4932-5 , Vol . 28 . ) After the holidays that year I made a boat trip down to a bar below the mouth of the San Juan River with a man we called Klondyke and then came back up the river to Cass ( Kite's Kites Hite's Hites ) , ( poling1 poling ) ( prac prac- prac ) ¬ tically all the way , although we rowed and sailed some . ( Klondyke Mondyke ) was an expert poler . This was in December or January ; we had no trouble with ice and we had no ( diffi- diffi ) culty getting up the rapids except the hard work of poling , and we poled up through every rapid without getting out of the boat or towing . I know ( a -a a ) place near Lake Canyon where there is a ledge of rock that extends out into the river , but there is a channel there perhaps 20 or 25 feet wide , and on this trip our boat did not strike there , although the water was at low stage . ( R . 4935-9 , Vol . 28 . ) ( I 1 ) was on the river in the latter part of 1905 and the early part of 1906 , operating the Adams Bar at Red Canyon with Frank Bennett . We got our supplies by boat from ( Kite Hite ) . ( R . 4939-40 , Vol . 28 . ) After leaving the river in 1906 ( I 1 ) was not back again until 1925 , when for about three months I placer mined on the California Bar . I made a boat trip up to Olympia Bar and got some mining equipment , and I also went down to the old dredge and got some things , using a ( 16-foot 16foot ) boat . ( R . 4940-1 , Vol . 28 . ) During the 19 or 20 years that I was away from the river I noticed very little changes in the river or its bed . It looked about the same and everything seemed natural . Sometimes when big floods |