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Show Record Our supplies came in by truck from Kayenta, Arizona, 4329 to Moon Light Post. Kayenta was nearer to the point we were working than Bluff. In Supplying our party by boat on the river, it would have been extremely hard to have taken the supplies from the river our on top of the mesas where most of our work was done. That would have been decided impracticable. From the mouth of Moon Light Canyon to Clay Hill Crossing the river rune through a very deep canyon and high precipitous ledges, and though it is possible in places to go down on foot, it in impossible to get stock down to the river between those two points. And we would be obliged to carry our supplies from the rim on both sides as far as 4330 18 or 20 miles to supply our party. Between Clay Hill Crossing down to the point where we quit that year we could have gotten supplies in boats in a few places; but at those places we would have to carry the supplies back into the interior country by burros or some other way. Through that stretch of the river below Clay Hill where the rim was accessible from the river we used one boat in carrying our supplies; and that boat was used along the river whenever the 4331 walls of the canyon made it practical to adopt that method. Between that stretch of the river from Nokai to Spencer Bar, the boat was used in carrying supplies from one point to another. About 9 miles below Spencer bar the river canyon opens out and is wider and the river runs quite smoothly through there. After that the river again runs through a deep canyon, precipitous walls. 4332 We began our work in September, 1924, and quit about the first of May, 1925. During the time between September, 1924, and May, 1925, I did not see any section of the river where the water in the channel was loss than waist deep. I waded the river a great number of places. There was no difficulty that I observed in any of the boating operations. When I was carrying supplies in a boat, 4333 I did not get hung up on sand bars or have trouble of that kind |