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Show 438 The other trip he took through Glen Canyon was when he left North Wash with his brother and Mr. Rowland and difficulty with sand bars and riffles was encountered during that trip. On his trips between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the Green River, he did not see any other boats empty or carrying freight or passengers. There have been some ranches in that section of the country but everything in abandoned now. From the mouth of the Green River down to Lee's Ferry there is one old abandoned ranch that has been abandoned for some time, inasmuch as the cabins have fallen down. He remembers a place called Hite but there was nobody living there. He met no other boats either light or carrying freight or passengers during the times he was in Glen Canyon and from there on down to Lee's Ferry. The trip he made with his brother and Rowland from North Wash was made late in march, 1928, and the Eddy trip was made in June, 1927. The Rowland trip started from the mouth of North Wash with two boats loaded with camp outfits and supplies, the load amounting to five or six hundred pounds to each boat. The lumber and supplies were purchased at Greenriver, Utah. R. 1129- 1132 " Q. Eddy didn't you build your boats in Greenriver, Utah, and go on down the river? |