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Show Record push out in a few hours and form again in nearly as short a time. We always had a way of getting our passengers off the ferry boat when we encountered sand bars; we had plenty of two inch plank and would lay those across the sand where it was miry. At times there would be a deeper channel next to the shore, and if the lank was too short to reach across that we would get rocks and make a sort of bridge to go over. Usually the sand bars would form after the fall rains in July or August, and when the rain 3072 commenced the sand bars would be more prominent than before. I have never been up the Colorado river more than about seven miles by boat but have been overland to Rock canyon, some fifty or sixty miles sway. This was when I was on the survey for the Southern California Edison Company and our party was working up on the 3073 survey overland. Our supplies also came overland, except one trip when we went up the river end got the supplies off the boat. I was on this survey about two months in 1921. I returned to Lee's Ferry in a homemade row boat that was tied up at the mouth of Rock Creek. This boat had been brought up the river to that 3074 point and left for us. There were five of us in the boat from Rock Canyon down to our other camp, twenty miles below Rock Canyon; it took us a day and a half or a little over to go from that camp down to Lee's Ferry. On this downstream trip the first sand bar we struck was at a point about a mile below Mexican Bar; then at another point on the river, I am not certain just where it was, we landed and were compelled to get out and work our boat off a sand bar, and to do this we had to get into 3075 the water. We had an outboard motor on the boat, but it wouldn't work. There were a number of places where the bottom of the boat would drag on the sand, but only one place that I recall where we had to get out and lift the boat off; that one place was located several miles above Warm Creek. While on this survey we went to one place where they had been digging coal; I don't know if that was the place where they got their coal, but |