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Show Record arrangement. I then floated back down the river from Warm Creek to my last camp and came back to Warm Creek in the small boat. 3963 On that trip the motor broke down again. I repaired the motor and was then able to get back to Warm Creek. Supplies were brought to us at Warm Creek from Lees Ferry by the river in the boat operated by Mars. From Warm Creek I continued on up the river to mile post 51. During that season we got other supplies from Lees Ferry by 3964 boat. I would say perhaps one- third of our supplies came by boat from Lees Ferry. The other two- thirds came by pack train. There is a trail from Lees Ferry up to mile 51 along the north bank of 3965 the river. I found the pack train the more dependable in bringing in supplies. I was on the big boat on the trial trip and when we moved to camp the first time. I observed the big boat in the river when it was trying to bring some supplies to our last camp. The boat was in the river below us and the men were wading around it in the river attempting to find the channel to get up the river. The boat did not reach the camp, so they were dropped back to our old camp about mile 41 and brought to us from there by pack train. 3967 While I was in there working, I saw, outside of the government boats, only one other boat, and that was the boat of an old prospector. At my camps noticed that the channel of the river was changing. At the camps above Warm Creek the changes in the channel was principally a filling up with sand, bars being deposited on the inside of the curves, and occasionally the current would shift and 3968 cut through a deposit that had already formed before. A rise in the river due to showers would cause a change in the course of the river. Those changes would occur within 24 to 48 hours. We could see the changes in the channel. The principal change perceptible to the eye was the cutting of the sand bars by the river. I do not 3969 recollect at what camps that happened. I remember noticing it at the camp at mile 41. |