OCR Text |
Show 1030 On the first trip with observation crew, the boat made only nine miles in two days; " they became disgusted, and turned back, came back to Lees Ferry. " We started in then with a survey party, running a line of levels, hauling supplies to these camps; they moved from day to day up the river, a few miles each day. " Q To identify them, do you know the names of these camps, the person on charge of them? " A It was Mr. Fowler, was the name of the camp we were hauling supplies to; we hauled supplies to him and stay there a day or two, and go up the river, move him up two or three miles to another place. " Maybe once a week we would come back down, bring the reports out, take up some more eats and mail to him." R. 2454. After he got back on that first trip, the truck was sent to Flagstaff and brought more supplies, so that it might have been a day or two before he moved out again. R. 2454. He made several trips that same season after he had made the first trip with the Edison part, but the does not know exactly how many. The Geological Survey party was running a line of levels, being engaged in mapping the river. " We would move them perhaps three or four miles, then they would stay there for a day, and move them again. Each time, between moves, we would come back for more supplies, bring more supplies, and bring the mail in. We were over there a total of five months." R. 2455. He went up the river, he believes, as far as mile post 68, or what they call the mouth of Bridge Canyon. R. 2455. He didn't go more than six or eight times above the Utah line in these trips. |