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Show 347 After returning to camp, the survey party continued from the mouth of the San Juan River on down to Lee's Ferry on the Colorado. The survey ended at Oak Creek, which is several miles below Rock Creek on the Colorado River. R. 890- 891. There was no difficulty in particular boating down the Colorado River, although sand bars were struck at times. He doesn't remember that anyone had to get out of the boat to push them off the sand bars. At one place above Lee's Ferry, because of poor judgment, he ran into a mud bar. The party started from Bluff, Utah, on the 18th or 19th of July, 1921, and the trip was completed on the 9th of December of the same year. R. 892- 893 During the first part of the trip in the latter part of July and on the first of August, six different floods were encountered, all of which made boating very difficult. During a large flood at the foot of Honaker Bend, there were sand waves which he estimated to be fully ten feet high and which stopped the progress of the boats for a day. R 893- 894. The party was re- supplied with provisions at Clay Hill Crossing, where they met by pack train. |