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Show Record efficiently and on account of the difficulty in starting it we got disgusted with it and took it off and put it under the deck. We carried it there all through Glen canyon. On this second trip we calculated that the large boats 843 would weigh empty 800 or 900 pounds, and when loaded, without the men, would weigh 1600 to 2000 pounds. We would carry usually three men in a boat. 844 We continued with the survey practically down to Hall's 845 Crossing, or Hall's Creek. I find in my notes here that we were met by Tom Wimmer above Hall's Crossing in a motor boat. Wimmer freighted some sup-plies in for the engineers at Hall's Crossing and he had a motor which he had put in a boat and he come up the river and met us a short distance above Hall's Crossing, and he took LaRue on board because they had worked together, and they went up the river to 846 look at a certain rapid that they had talked about before. Mr. Wimmer freighted the supplies in by wagon to Hall's Crossing. We then unloaded Mr. Chenowith's surplus and loaded 1500 pounds of supplies for Trimble, another engineer connected with the survey. I don't know where Wimmer's boat came from. Wimmer is a river man. He has always got boats scattered at different places. 849 I arrived at the mouth of the San Juan on Wednesday, October 5th, at 2: 30 and found Trimble's party. Then we proceeded 850 down to Lees Ferry. There were four of us on the one boat. On the two boats we carried 1500 pounds of supplies. We had no diffi-culty in carrying those. On the trip to the San Juan we encountered sand bars. We avoided them whenever we could. The boats would get stuck for a short time and we would push them off. The name of " Crossing Bar" is a rather unusual one to me. I had never heard of it. Most of our trouble with sand bars was from the mouth of the 852 San Juan to Lees Ferry. In that section between the mouth of the San Juan and the Utah- Arizona line is a rapid at Bridge canyon 8/ 1/ 2 miles below the - 121- |