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Show Record mouth of what is known as Salt Wash, we rowed this boat with the one set of oars through the quiet water and as far as we could up the rapids and then used a fifteen or twenty foot tow line and a pipe pole. One of us would pole the boat along the shore through 5197 the rapids and the other one held the boat out with the pipe pole so as to keep it from interfering with the shore. In that way we went right up over the rapids with this boat. We only towed the boat at these rapids, which were not very long - possibly there or four hundred feet altogether, and the balance of the distance upstream we rowed. In going down over the stretch of river between Castle Creek and Nigger Bill Canyon, we had no trouble with our raft. After we launched the raft at the mouth of Cisco Wash, we discovered when we passed the first rapids that there was always a current of water in the center where the main river was running down that was always sufficient to carry our raft; we simply paid attention to that when we came to a rapid and ran through that current and never experienced any trouble in going 5198 down with the raft. On our boat journey upstream we had to keep close to the shore line when we came to these rapids, which were not so bad that we were not able to get up in the manner I have described. Aside from the hard going while we towed the boat up the rapids, we had no trouble on our upstream journey and we rowed the boat at other places than the rapids. We did not observe any shallow channel at the rapids or at any other place between Castle Creek and Nigger Bill Canyon and had no difficulty in getting through, always finding plenty of water both on our downstream journey with the raft and on our upstream journey with the boat. 5199 I know that this trip was taken in the early part of November. The high stage of water is in June and July and when we took this river trip I did not consider the river at a high stage. We didn't measure the depths, but on one end of the raft we had an oar- look, and in passing over rapids we would steer our raft through the 779 |