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Show 114 into the wrong : channel and would have to get out and push , and my boat occasionally scraped . At ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) Ranch two of the party , with their personal equipment , got on my boat and we continued down to the ( -mouth mouth ) of the Green River , and continually had experience with sand bars . . I would get stuck with my boat and I think that on occasions I got out and helped with the larger boat which , as 1 ( re- re ) member , did get ( stuck stuelc ) occasionally in going through the lower places in the river when there might be one or two channels and we might get into the wrong one and have to go back and get into the other one . I would say that I got stuck two or three times a day . ( R . 3652-8 , Vol . 20 . . ) While drilling operations were in progress I believe 1 made one boat trip up the Green River and two up the Colorado to Moab . As I remember it , the difficulties on the Colorado River were similar or possibly worse than those on the Green . ( R . 3658 , Vol . 20 . ) 1 made an upstream trip when we took the drilling equipment out ; there had been high water and the sand bars had changed their ( posi- posi ) tion ; however , it was easy to work backwards off the bars and get to the channel going upstream but there were places where we had to get out and pull and push . ( R . 3662 , Vol . 20 . ) Exhibit 477 is a photograph taken at the junction as we started out . ( R . 3672 , Vol . 20 . ) John F . ( RicJiardson Richardson ) testified : I am a civil engineer in the War Department and had charge of the 1914 government party which was investigating the matter of a reservoir site at the junction of the Green and Colorado rivers . . ( R . . 3675-7 , Vol . 20 . ) The latter part of June , , 1914 , , 1 made my first trip down from Green River , , Utah , , in Captain ( Yokey's Yokeys ) motor boat . ( R . 3678-9 , Vol . . 20 . ) I had with me a government map dated in 1910 ( Exhibit 480 ) which is a part of the report of Lieutenant Leeds . . ( R . . 3680 ; ; 3713-5 , , Vol . . 20 ) and consulted survey made by Lieutenant Leeds as I went down the river ; I found no riffles that did not appear on the maps I had with me , ( which vhich ) pretty well ( cov- cov ) ered the situation . ( R . 3685 , Vol . 20 . ) On that trip we went to a point a few miles below the junction , , in a day and a half or two days , and came back up in four or five days ; and it seems to me that we encountered quite a few sand bars coming upstream . ( R . . 3688-9 , , Vol . 20 ) ) During that summer I made a trip from Moab down the Colorado to the junction in a motor boat having a draft or about 15 inches , and I made the upstream trip to Moab a number of |