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Show 458 past, the boat getting stuck at times. From Hill Creek to Mile 59 is always a difficult place on the river and he has seen the name conditions almost at Kane Creek as he described when the flood came down Hill Creek. In that stretch of the river from Hill Creek to Kane Creek the channel crosses the river from side to side about four times, he believes. R. 1172- 1173. From Kane Spring wash up to Mile 55, little trouble is encountered but between Mile 55 and 56, trouble is generally looked for, that being the place where the boat was stuck on the first trip. There are two to three channels there. Between Mile 53 and 54 he has had trouble because the river is divided into two channels by a big rock that sets out from the bank and many times the main current runs straight toward the rock. Between Mile 52 and 53 the only trouble encountered was in January 1926 with an ice jam. Between Mile 49 and 50, which is near the well, there is a sharp head in the river with a rock in the middle which bothers at low stage of water. Between Mile 43 and 48, especially between 43 and 44, is where witness was stuck on a send bar a day and a half and there were at least three or four channels in that place, the deep water sometimes being in one and sometimes in another. Between Mile 39 and 43, near the Shafer well No. |