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Show 459 channels in that place and the deep water is not in the same channel always Between Mile 32 and 33, which is below the J. H. Shafer well, he has been stuck a number of times. From Mile 32 down to Mile 37 at Lockhart Canyon, little difficulty was encountered except right at Lockhart Canyon where where he had trouble with two channels. The troubles recounted by him were encountered principally during July, August, December and January, or during the lowest water. During the winter he was troubled with floating ice and heavy galvanized iron was put on the front of the boat to keep ice from chewing wood. In February and March trouble was frequently encountered in the stretches of the river pointed out on the map exhibit 10 by him. Some trouble was also had in the month of April. R. 1172- 1178. " Q. What about the month of April? " A. April we had rains that would make these washes, wash some sand into the channel at times, I remember one time, I think it was in 1927, during April, thawing weather, there was a big rock fell from way up high on a cliff, I imagine five hundred feet above the river, landed in the river. That later gave us a little trouble; the channel finally shifted to that side. That was the |
