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Show Record will build up and up until finally it breaks backward and the water quiets down, and then in a few minutes the sand waves will start again. This occurs at every stage of the water, but probably 2242 it occurs principally when the river is rising. Our boats drew probably six to eight inches of water and the San Juan current is very swift. In going downstream we would point the boat as it went down. The boats were frequently stuck on sand bars at the low stages of water, it being necessary at times to pull the 2243 boats downstream during the lower stages of the water. I would say that we encountered perhaps thirty rapids between Bluff and the , south of the San Juan. Supplies were brought in to us overland about every two weeks. There was a cache of supplies brought down the Colorado and left for us at the mouth of the San Juan. 2244 When we reached the Colorado we went on down that river in the same boats we had used on the San Juan. We did not have nearly as many difficulties in operating our boats on the Colorado River, but there were several similar rapids in the Colorado below the mouth of the San Juan. When I left the party I went with Mr. Christensen and Mr. Loper in a boat to lee's Ferry, Mr. Loper 2245 acting as boatman. Out difficulties on the trip to Lee's Ferry seemed mild in comparison with those encountered on the San Juan On our trip to lee's ferry we frequently encountered sand bars. 2246 I would say that we grounded four or five times on that trip, but in no case were we compelled to get out to push the boats. We encountered no rapids on that trip. 2247 Robert N. Allen testified on cross examination as follows: Of the pictures produced by me, those numbered from 1 to 121 were pictures taken on the San Juan, and the remaining nineteen were taken on the Colorado. We reached the mouth of the San Juan on October 3. I didn't happen to take any picture of the San Juan River on either of those four or five occasions when it was only twenty or thirty feet wide and only six inches deep, and 291 |