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Show Record 3200 kind; we did not have any difficulty with our boat, but the life boat had a little difficulty. I can't just locate that place, but I know that at the mouth of Lake Canyon it is shallow and there is a reef, but don't remember whether or not that was the place we had the difficulty. We were about three weeks making the upstream trip from Lee's Ferry with Mr. Stanton's boat. Stanton went down with us but didn't come back up. On the upstream trip we had a launch, two life boats, and, I believe, two flat bottom boats, but 3201 I am not sure about that. Four of us went on up as far as Hite after delivering the boats at the dredge just above Bull Frog rapid. We rowed and towed the boats upstream, wading the river more or less, in as shallow water as we could get our boats over. Mr. Stanton 3202 located placer claims all the way down from above Hite to Lee's Ferry, and all of these locations were continuous according to his survey; some of them crossed the river and some did not, but they were all located contiguously so that assessment work done at cer-tain points would apply to the entire group of claims. Some of the claims were located on both sides of the river. My partner and I and two of the other boys helped in getting the boats over Aztec 3203 Rapid. We used something like a block and tackle and by main force pulled the Stanton motor boat up over the rapid. I think that I saw the first sand waves I had ever seen on that trip. At least 3204 I had never before encountered sand waves. At a number of places on the down trip to Lee's Ferry we saw sand waves, although they weren't as heavy in the winter as during a rising stage of water. The sand waves are worse when the river begins to rise in the spring, and they are also worse after the river begins to go down 3205 dependent upon the season when the river begins to drop. The sand waves break upstream and get as high as seven or eight feet, although a man going through them would imagine they are higher. I have seen them at most any part of the river at certain times. You will see them more or less between rapids where silt is collected. They |