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Show 88 stove on the raft . On our trip to Olympia bar we ( encount- encount ) ered difficulties only once , when we were hung up for a few minutes on a sand bar , but the boat swung off out in the channel and we were all right again . Our load was too heavy for our raft so we got a log and made our raft larger and continued on downstream to Bull Frog Rapid and thence to ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing , where we landed and unloaded the raft ( R . 3131-5 , Vol . 17 . ) From ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing we continued on downstream ( with -with with ) a row boat ( and ard ) our raft , lining our boat at a whirlpool below Lake Canyon rapid , and then ( contin- contin ) uing on down to Rincon . Then , ( with ivith ) my uncle and two other men , we went back upstream to ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing . At one point below Lake Canyon rapid it was too swift for us to row and we towed the boat up the swift water . We made this upstream trip of about 22 miles in two days , towing where we could because it is easier to tow upstream than row . ( R . 3135-6 , Vol . 17 . ) We drilled for oil at Rincon , our deepest hole being 140 feet , and while there some of our supplies came from ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing by boat and some came to us overland . ( R . 3137-8 , Vol . 17 . ) About October 8 , 1920 , ( I 1 ) made an upstream trip from Rincon with Frank Bennett and W . B . Hay in a ( 16-foot 16foot ) row boat . We made the ten or eleven miles in a day , rowing and towing . We went up to bring down a raft that had stuck at Lake ( Can- Can ) yon rapid and to salvage its cargo . I ( didn't didnt ) observe a ledge there ; where the raft was stuck ; it was only ( knee-deep kneedeep ) , and we had to move the raft about 20 feet to get it into deeper water . The raft was 20 feet long and 8 or 10 feet wide , and loaded with a drill stem weighing 1800 pounds and a few drill bits . ( R . 3141-4 , Vol . 17 . ) Different rafts were built on each of these trips , the first raft taking down the gas engine and drill rig , which consisted of an engine and wooden bull wheel and the frame of the rig . The first raft was in three or four sections about 10 feet wide and 40 or 50 feet long ; they also had a boat with them . . All of the equipment used in our drilling operations was taken down the river on one or other of the rafts or in the boat . . The equipment carried on the rafts weighed five tons . . ( R . 3145-7 , Vol . 17 . ) In getting the raft off at Shock Rapid it was necessary for us to get in the water , and we found it about ( knee-deep kneedeep ) there where the raft had caught on rocks . That stretch of bad water was probably an eighth of a mile long . In November of the same year I made ( an- an ) other upstream trip from Rincon to Bull Frog Rapid , , a |
