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Show Record 2460 is never the same anywhere. At any place in the river that is quiet a bar will form. Where there is a right angle bend, if you go down the left side you would not encounter a bar. If the water was up it would cut out the bar as it went down. In going upstream the water is so swift that you have to keep out of the 2461 current and get out where the boat channel is. In operating my boat on the river I didn't always pick the deepest water; the water is too swift in many of the deep parts; if it is not swift, there is a bar. The channel does not change everywhere, and where I use the word channel I mean the place where I would run my boat through, which is not necessarily the deeper part of the 2462 river. In operating the boat I don't use the deeper water because it is too swift, and with the boat I had we couldn't make any progress. In going downstream I would steer the boat along the 2463 deep portions of the channel. Every miler or two we would encounter a bar, after which it would be good going until we hit another bar. After we had tried a few trips up the river with this pro-peller, the sand sucked into it and finally locked and broke it 2464 and we changed the type. I later built a paddle wheel and put it on the boat and we had very much better luck with that and could make more progress up the river at all stages of water. After I put on the paddle wheel we would get stuck on bars, but it was not as bad as with the propeller because the paddle wheel did not let the boat settle on the bars as formerly. There would be times when we would put out a line and use the winch to get off the 2465 bars. As far as I remember the winch that was on the boat original-ly was never dismantled. If we had to go very far the crew would have to get overboard almost every day and work the boat back and forth and push it off a bar and try to find another channel deep enough. The period of my first visit on the Colorado River was from August to December. Next year we operated this boat there |