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Show Record trips from Shafer No. 1 and No. 1A. We hauled small casings and the drilling engine that they were going to use at another place. At Moab we delivered it to the Utah Southern Oil Company. 5074 They have their own trucks and will move it from there. At the mouth of Nill creek there is a bar at certain times of the year. It has given some trouble in crossing it. We usually get trouble there in July and August when they have their big storms on the desert. Our boats have been stuck on that bar. Just when it is flooded we would have trouble there. The channel gets back where we will have a channel to go. After the storm, it will bother us for a week or ten days right at the mouth of the canyon and below there. If we get another storm, it will 5075 bother again. As to alterations by the various raises and lowerings of the river, the high water will reach its peak about the tenth of June, after that goes down, and you go down the river, at first the channel will be different, but it will gradually fall right back to where it was the year before. When we get a heavy flood later on in August or September, we have the same thing over again to a certain extent, but it does not amount to so much. We get it at the mouth of the canyon, then for a mile or so there is a little trouble. I mean where the side washes come in. All up and down the stream after the spring floods we get a different arrangement of the sand bars for a little while. We do not get the same effect after a heavy rain. It does not raise the river. A flood is not 5076 like the high water from the snow melting in the mountains. You will get it if the flood is as high as some of the spring floods, that is, extremely high water, six or eight feet. You will then have a little change all down the river for a short time, then the river would drop back to where it was originally. That continuous until we get another heavy rain or flood in July and August. This year we didn't have any to speak of at all. Once in a while we get a flood in September and October, but not so much as in July and August. |