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Show Record I do not know of any conditions on the lower river which make it at all impracticable or unsafe to operate a properly constructed boat up and down that stretch of rive. I would say I think I could do anything on the lower river that I did on the 4787 Green River with the same boats. With reference to my observation of the formation of sand 4788 bars or other bars in the river at side washes: Some of those washes are very large, at times they have quite large floods down them which deposit a great amount of silt and sometimes rock. They simply come out into the river. It is usually in the fall of the year when the river is lower. They will shove the river over, in other words, kind of dam that side of the river and push it over a little bit. As the river washes it away again, it disappears. But nearly every one of those create what I call a rapid. It makes a narrow place in the river. These rapids are worse directly after they are deposited. I have not seen such conditions created at these side canyons where there had not been left a channel through which boats of the type I have operated could pass up and down. I would not say I could pass the scow up over the Brown riffle, which is one of those rapids. I have taken the Marguerite up over the 4789 Brown riffle numbers of times. In Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons I have never seen the channel so narrow or so low that I couldn't take the Marguerite up or down. I have never seen the channel dammed across the river and at no time have I over been stopped with the Marguerite. I have seen the Green and Colorado where the river is divided into different streams flowing for some distance. Under those conditions you cannot always tell where the proper channel is located on the first trip down. We usually consider the long way around is the proper channel. We try that first. Sometimes you are fooled on it then. That would be true in a curve. On a straight stretch in the river, where there are a number of braided conditions, I never had any trouble. Was always able to discover the channel. There is one place pretty well down, before you get |