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Show Record the risk of lining them, and then between rapids we would put 2178 the boats back in the water again. We took the boats out and skidded them in this manner about five times through Cataract Canyon. Just below North Wash we got some supplies and after staying there awhile went on down to Hite, where I repaired one 2179 of our boats that had been injured in Cataract Canyon. Then we left Hite and pulled out for the San Juan and had trouble several times running on the bars and rocks. There is one place where there is a shelf running across the river nearly one hundred yards in width, and one has to find and opening in this shelf or lodge of rock and get a boat through. At that point the river is cut in one or two places and we felt our way across until we came to an opening through the ledge and then put our boats through. 2180 In response to a question by the Special Master Mr. Ryan who sat with the attorneys for the government throughout the taking of testimony fixed the location of this shelf or ledge of rock as at about Mile 112 above Lee's Ferry. 2181 Continuing with his direct testimony Mr. McDonald said: There are quite a few rapids in Glen Canyon, most of them, however, are not bad rapids to rum. Bull Frog Rapid is a bad place, there being lots of large rocks there. On this Stanton 2182 trip there were more people in and around Hite than were there on my former trip. Dan Hite and Homer were there on the second trip. Messrs. Brown, Reynolds and I went down the river one Sunday and slept on a bar that night because the river was too swift to pull 2183 up and there was no shore line at that point. That was just below Escalante. From the San Juan down to lee's Ferry we did not have any trouble. At the Crossing of the Fathers we got on to some bars and rocks and then twice below there we got on bars. 2184 This was opposite Navajo Creek. We got supplies at Lee's Ferry from Kanab. I was then at Lee's Ferry about fifteen days. There were a few persons lived there then end mail was brought there on |