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Show 4323 Loper- D 2343 Q How long did it take you to make the trip back? A I can't say exactly; I think we was on that trip maybe four days. Q Did you encounter any difficulties coming up? A Yes; at the Last Chance reek was our most serious problem, just above Last Chance reek, at the channel crossing; I think there was six of us besides the engineer or the pilot, and the six of us got out in the river and waded back and forth trying to find a channel, and we would get in knee deep, or a little over, we would about, " I have got it", then we would start up the river and walk out of the water. That continued that way until we couldn't find a channel big enough, but they got three men on each side of that boat, and the boat running, and we finally worked it over that sandbar; And there was two rapids, not bad rapids, just rock reefs, you know, above there, we had to do the same thing. Q What about the stage of the water on that trip, first down and then up? A Well, it was low; I imagine at that time there was probably eight thousand second feet; how I happen to know that was, I had occasion to want to know just how much there was on a certain; day; I asked the gauger down there; he said there was seventy- five hundred at the time; I figured we had about eight thousand at that time. |