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Show 5416 Yokey- C 3427 you ever seen a time when in the channel of the river between those points there was a shallow water as at places between Greenriver, Utah, and the San Rafael -- the mouth of the San Rafael? A Yes, I seen it at what is called Barrier creek, and Valentines, and this Fort Bottom, there it spreads out. Tak-ing this barge down for the Reclamation Service, ran the same channel. We covered the river four or five times a trip, took both bars out. For that reason the channel cut. I came back to the bars with the launches, and only hit one bar coming back. Otherwise, if we hadn't been traveling back and forth there, I probably would have been stuck good & tight. Q Then you have in mind that place in the river where it does get as shallow at very low water as at some points between the San Rafael and the town of Greenriver? A This shallow place -- because the river will bend, she will cross from one point to the other; that is where you get the shallow places. Q Isn't there, even at such places, some point in the |