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Show Record 2432 I do not wish to be understood as saying that in front of my cabin at Red Canyon the channel would change from one side to the other every day. During the eight years that I made observa-tions at that place I would say that such a thing happened probably three times. The changes I have observed and described as having taken place in front of my cabin are similar as to variabil-ity to those I have spoken of at other points on the river. 2436 Sand waves usually travel up the middle of the stream, al-though there are times, as at Honaker Trail on the San Juan, when 2437 they extend clear across the river. Generally speaking there is no difficulty in avoiding the sand waves by getting off either to one or the other side of the center of the stream. 2439 When I made the round trip to Lee's Ferry with Bert Seaboldt, I went down the river and came up just as planned. Seaboldt and Lon Turner took a boat and brought supplies down the river from Hite to our camp, a distance of seventeen miles, and I also brought supplies down, and they would use pack horses on the west side of the river. My work was chiefly to bring supplies down in my boat and Seaboldt got the big boat from Lon Turner. 2440 I was paid by the day for my work. While Frank Bennett was working on the Olympia Bar in 1910, 1911 and 1912, he had a boat and and sometimes he and his nephew would go upstream and come back in the boat. Bennett might have carried a few supplies for himself. but I did not hear of his doing so for other people except for a fixed compensation per day. In 1911 Charlie Spencer was trying to install a dredge at 2442 Lee's Ferry and he had some barges. I understood that he mined and hauled some coal but never saw any of it. I saw his steamboat tied up but did not see it leave its moorings and was not on the lower section of the river while he or his company was operating 2443 that boat. I did not see it sunk and don't know a thing about the boat. I ran my boat on many occasions between Good Hope and Hite, |