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Show 335 the canoe getting stuck on the sand bars as usual. When the river enters the canyon it has more rapid descent and numerous riffles occur in these places. The water is shallow and the oars would drag bottom. The canoe was travelling fast and difficulty in making the run though the swift water without striking the shore was had time after time. This condition of swift, shallow water commences about twenty miles below the Cisco pumping plant and continues on down to a short distance above Moab. R. 859- 862 There were a few riffles in the section where Dolores River enters the Grand River and he stopped at a ranch near the Dolores River on the first trip. The run from Dolores River to Moab was made in a day and a half, according to his memory. Complete notes were not kept after getting out of the swift water. He arrived at Moab about the 26th of August, 1916. Upon arrival at Moab the canoe was shipped back to Thompson by automobile truck and from Thompson it was shipped by rail to Clenwood Springs. On the second trip he was joined by Bert Loper and they came down the river from the mouth of the Eagle River to Cisco, Utah. It was on this trip that he with Bert Loper, ran the Westwater rapids. He made the trip for the purpose of taking motion pictures. R. 863- 865. ( Note: Attention called to exhibit 89, records at Cisco, Utah, R. Vol. 5 - p. 865) Exhibit no 103 identified as photograph taken at the mouth of the Dirty Devil River, R. Vol. 5 - p. 866. |