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Show 1061 anyone else did. R. 2525. " Q Did you encounter any difficulties with sandbars? " A We were occasionally caught on sandbars with our boats." R. 2525. This is more an impression than a definite recollection, his impression being that they expected to strike several sandbars every day and thought nothing of it if they did. Mr. Thomas, he thinks, was riding in one of the other boats, they being separated in two parties. They aimed to travel together as nearly as possible, camping at the same place every night and leaving the same camp sites. They were not successful in traveling together, getting out of sight of each other occasionally. He thinks Mr. Koehler, Mr. Freeman, and Mr. Tom Wimmer, who ran the motor, were in the boat in which he was riding. R. 2526. Complainant's Exhibit No. 410 was identified by him as a picture of the party with him. R. 2526- 2527. " Q Which one of those persons in there is you? " A The fellow in the boat." R. 2527. Mr. Herman Stabler was also a member of that party. R. 2527. " Q Can you tell me how far down the river this sandbar condition continued? " A You mean between Hall's Crossing and Lees Ferry? " Q Yes. " A I don't know that we were ever free from the nuisance of expecting a sandbar; it seems to me it continued throughout the course." R. 2527. He again went on to the river at Diamond Creek at the Geran dam site, stayed there a few hours, then went back, got on the river at the mouth of the Virgin River or Boulder Canyon, and went down to Needles [ California]. Both of the last places named |