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Show Record without mishap down opposite the large island on the right hand side. We proceeded to the large island and made camp for the night. 915 The next morning we proceeded on down the river with varying depths of water and widths of the river to what is known as Little Valley, seven miles below Greenriver. We proceeded on. 917 Mr. Hoyt was doing some surveying right along. We went through numerous riffles, and encountered sand bars and gravel bars and 920 many stretches of placid water until we got to the mouth of the San Rafael River, where we camped. 922 From the San Rafael River down to the mouth of the Green 923 River our greatest difficulty seemed to be sticking on sand bars. We encountered sand bars through Labyrinth Canyon frequently as long as there was no flood stage. During the flood state we went along very nicely. The sand bars in Stillwater Canyon were few. After we reached the mouth of the Green River we turned and went up the Colorado River. We then had the motor. I believe the boat with the motor drew somewhere near 22 inches of water. At the slide we were accompanied by a larger boat. The larger boat made it through the slide very easily, which indicated, at it was 925 of greater draft, there was a channel through there and for 100 yards at least above. I attempted to go up the left shore of the Colorado at the slide and encountered a shallow, submerged sand bar. I tried to cross it, and if I remember right, the motor was killed on account of striking the bar. I then drifted below, started the motor again, and went up through the slide with little difficulty, where we camped. Not far above here we had a great deal of diffi-culty finding a channel on account of sand bars and mud islands. The larger boat had gone on up the channel which I had attempted. It crossed this crossing bar into a channel on the opposite side. I then followed somewhere near in its wake and made the crossing. 926 Virgil Baldwin was the pilot in the larger boat. The larger boat had come down the Colorado from Moab and turned up the Green River and met us about a mile from the junction, and then turned around |