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Show 5187 F. Bennett- D 3199 A Well, I know where there is two places on the river. I didn't get acquainted with them that trip, but later I was down the river, down to the mouth of the San Juan several times, I remember as we went down this trip we are speaking of, with Mr. Stanton, their life boat, they had, had quite a keel on it, it stuck in going through these Bull Frog rapids, it struck pretty hard. Didn't injure anything, heavy oak plates, a loaded keel to the bottom, so they wouldn't turn over. We didn't strike going down, but when we got down to Shock bar, down below the dredge, we went along all right. We stopped at Mr. Shock's camp. The life boat got in difficulty. We went over and helped them. We waded back and forth. There is cracks in the bed rock, some of them pretty deep, but they aren't very wide. We took an car and sounded along. You could step across them. You had to feel your way out. We put the boat way back up the river and went to the right- hand side, and still we dragged a little going down through there, the four of us working on that boat, kind of helped it down over there. That was at the Shock bar. It seemed to be a bed rock there. Didn't seem to be gravel on it, at all. Then one place below there, somewhere, I don't remember where that was, we had a little difficulty of the same kind. |