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Show 343 " A. I was hired as a rod man with the Geological Survey, and at certain portions of the San Juan where the river was a little dangerous or where it was impossible for the regularly hired batman to make a return trip on foot alongshore after the second boat, I would take the second boat." R. 880. His experience on the San Juan River was limited to one trip. The boats were launched about four miles below Bluff, Utah, and he took one of the first boats down what is known as the Narrows. He doesn't know where the boats used were built but they were transferred by trucks from Greenriver, Utah, on a truck when he first made contact with them, and he rode on the truck from Monticello to Bluff. R. 880- 881. The boats were flat- bottom, sixteen feet long and four feet wide. He estimated that boats Would draw three inches unloaded. When loaded with provisions and passenger the boats, he thought, would draw about twelve inches of water. R. 881- 882. He took charge of one of the boats just above the Narrows below Mexican Hat and took the boat down to the Narrows, where he passed one or two of the party and they entered the boat and rode through the Narrows with him. R 882- 884. |