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Show Record the Moab Garage Company, but it was in one of the barges they operated. The trip was exceptionally free from difficulties, al-though we had one or two minor delays on account of sand bars. I went directly to Lockhart, where I had tents and also used the oil company's cabins. My party went down with Mr. Yundt's party, and when we got to Lockhart we continued to meander the river in the manner I have already described, using the same small boat 2837 we had used in 1926. There was generally no difference in the river bed down there and the bed farther up. There are certain stretches up and down the river that are always more or less troublesome; that is, they offer delays. The section around Lockhart was no more difficult than the upper portion with which I am familiar. Mr. Yundt was with me on this Lockhart trip. We had a small boat on the barge and repaired and calked that boat, put it in the water and went on ahead with the small motor, leaving 2838 the barge about midway between No. 2 Well and Lockhart. In the vicinity of Lockhart there are probably more exposed bars and the river channel is better water than in the upper portion of the river and the channel is better indicated and can be found with less trouble. But the channel does change; I won't say that it changes from day to day, but throughout the period we were there it changed in a good many places and at others remained much the same. We encountered whirlpools both above and below 2839 Lockhart. These whirlpools had little effect on boats like we we using other than to change the course of the boat. If we hit them at full speed going downstream, there is a possibility of being thrown out of the boat but we never were thrown out. Our first supplies were brought to Lockhart on my trip down with the barge, and I think there were two, possibly three loads brought in from Indian Creek. Other government parties were in touch with me, sometimes in the same camp, and they always had a pack train available. When our work was completed in 1927 I went 2840 up the river by boat. I had arranged to have the black boat of |
