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Show Record I don't know exactly how much water the Wilmont drew; it was a side- wheeler and would draw less water than a propeller boat. Mr. Wolverton did most of his running down the canyon with that boat. We met with our troubles up on these riffles. He would know more than I would as to whether there is any stage of water when that boat could not go up and down the Green River. 3425 I wouldn't care to express an opinion as to whether the Wilmont would experience trouble at any stage of water in going up and down that stretch of the Green River between the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green. 3426 Three years ago I was to get my boat that didn't draw over a foot of water up the river at little Valley. That is the only occasion in my experience when I could not get up and down the Green River with a boat having a draft of one foot, and theretofore I " always came back to the home port". Up until then I had always been able to find a channel sufficient to permit a boat drawing a foot of water to travel through. 3427 At Barrier Creek, Valentine's Bottom and Fort Bottom the river spreads out, and when I was taking the barge down for the Reclamation Service, I ran through the same channel; we covered the river four or five times a trip, taking the bars out at that point and cutting a channel. I came back there with the launches and only hit one bar. If we had not bean traveling back and forth I probably would have gotten stuck. As a general thing, even at these shallow places such as I have just described, there is no 3428 difficulty in finding a deeper channel, but sometimes it is pretty hard to find. If you keep turning you will finally get through. Even though. You may be hung up for a little time by running on some bar, you are always able to reach your destination. When I was carrying supplies for the Reclamation Service survey party, we didn't have occasion to go up and down the river with an interval of only a few days between trips; there was a launch covering each end of the survey. During that time we did |