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Show Record than the one I have just referred to where I carried stuff down the river; that is the only instance I recall where I actually used every effort I could to get upstream and failed to reach my destination. I made my river trips during the years that I was down there pursuing my vocation or in the service of others who were engaged in business, and I was not in that country as a 3232 sight- seer or gentleman of leisure. The copper property I referred to and that I worked was nine miles nearly due east from Hite; the copper occurred in bedded flat veins and was a sandstone bed; I shipped several cars of ore while the price of copper was high at about the time we went into the war. The freight was so excessive that I had to quit. I shipped two or three cars to Tooele, 3233 Utah, and three or four to the American. I had ten or twelve men working for me and we backed the ore. In taking the are across the river when it was high we usually used four man and it was all 3234 taken across the river in boats. Some of the carload I shipped were as high as forty tons to the car and some were around thirty tons; I must have shipped two hundred tons. 3235 The shifting of the bad of the Colorado River and the changing of channels in that river generally occurred during the high water season and immediately following the high water season. After the river settled down to low water or to normal water, there is very little change in the river channel unless something comes in the way of an obstruction that would have a tendency to throw it to the other side. Such an occurrence would be unusual. Sometimes 3236 there have been other floods that would reach nearly the stage of spring water and would have the same effect on the channels, but that was rather an unusual occurrence. I have known an ice gorge to last for several days, but as a general rule they break in twenty- four to forty- eight hours. The longest period I ever knew an ice gorge to last was for about a week. 3237 The ledge I spoke of at Shock Rapid, which is the same |