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Show 954 Mr. Stanton's party was using boats up and down the river in connection with this assessment work and they were operated in the same manner as he explained before. Besides these boats there were several small row boats at Hite. These boats would draw about a foot of water loaded. While there, he had a good opportunity to observe the channel of the river and sand bars. " During that summer, July and August, the river was at a medium stage, and we didn't encounter much difficulty between Good Hope and Hite, that was the stretch of river that I was boating on at that time." R. 2265- 2266. He found a great deal of difference in the channel and sand bars when the river was at high, low, and medium stages. Places that were clear in low water may be filled with silt during medium water and the channel will be changed. " Q How frequently would you say the channels changed? " A I have noticed that a channel will change within a week." R. 2256. He found the river easy to go up and down during a medium stage of water. As between high and low water he preferred the low stage of water and didn't attempt to navigate in high water, meaning by that, ordinary high water which came usually during June. Most of his boating was done in July and August. He has been on the river in every month of the year except June. R. 2266- 2267. When he got through mining at Good Hope he left the river, leaving on horseback and going to Hanksville. R. 2268. His next acquaintance with the river was in the Grand Canyon in 1907 when he did some little boating up and down the river for about fifteen miles, at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek. |