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Show 418 Upon reaching Lee's Ferry on the third trip he hired someone to haul him to Kanab, Utah. From Kanab, Utah, he took a stage to Cedar City, Utah, and from there want back to Salt Lake City. The boat used was left on the river. R. 1066- 1068 " Q. On those various prospecting trips when you were down there, placer mining or prospecting for placer mines, did you have an opportunity to observe the Colorado River in that stretch between the lower end of the cataracts and Lee's Ferry with reference to sand bars, and so forth? " A. Oh, yes; there is some difficulty along there in different places. " Q. Just tell me about it. " A. It is about the same as it is above, only you have got more water, is the only difference I saw; however, you have the same difficulties. Why it is, I don't know. It is because, I guess, the river is wider, wherever it can be wide. " Of course, it is boxed in places, you know. Then another thing, you have difficulties in there, twisting currents. " Q. That is something we haven't had before. What do you mean by twisting currents? " A. Regular whirlpool proposition. " Q. That occurs quite frequently? " A. Oh, no. But in sharp bends, where the river beds against a ledge, the water seems to crowd the |