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Show 606 " A Well, there were lots of shoals in the river, and with the load which we had in the one boat, it made it pretty difficult to get over some of those shoals. We had sand waves; we had to be pretty careful on account of the load; that is all we had; if we swamped that, we were out of luck." R. 1470- 1471. When on the move there would be only two in the boat; there was not enough room for the whole crew. The rest of them went along the shore of the river and carried the line along, that is the survey. " In places we had to cross back and forth on account of the bends of the river running into the wall." R. 1471. On account of the shoals and sand bars it took time to pick a channel to float the boat through without getting stuck; had to get out and wade around, locate the channel. " The main thing there was sand waves we had to watch out for, not to get caught in them with this load." R. 1471- 1472. He came away from the river on about September 10. The boat was left there for Mr. Wimmer to haul supplies down to the parties below. The supplies were hauled in by truck from Salina, Utah, " and from the point where the truck was left they were hauled in by wagon down Bull Frog creek to its mouth." R. 1472. The Coast Survey was also working down the river. Mr. Hough was in charge. The Coast Survey Party, when they left the river, was still on Bull Frog Creek, and they went on down the river right after " We went out." R. 1472- 1473. |