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Show Record Lees Ferry that I spoke of; then I boated quite a bit of stuff from where the stuff was unloaded by the teams down to the camp where they intended to put the dredge. I used just ordinary row 3622 boats that were shipped in from San Francisco. We operated those boats over the whole river between there and Lees Ferry, with the exception of coming back up where we had to drag them over the rapids. After I made the trip down to Lees Ferry and back, most of the operations were above and below Hanson Creek. We went above Hanson Creek five or six hundred yards because Mr. Stanton had an idea that he could get the barge up there and the dredge. We took three boats clear up to Hite to get two leads of stuff that was there. Then I quit Mr. Stanton for two or three months. I helped take the boats up the Hite. We would row in good water and then there was a good deal of water where we would have to get out and pull them by the shore line. 3624 Below Hanson Creek I made a number of trips between Hanson Creek and the camp with those keel boats. I had no difficulty in getting those boats up stream there. That was comparatively dead water. Going down we had to pretty nearly row. There was a little current, of course. There were no rapids at all. Mr. Stanton had a scow hooked on a windlass. I never worked on that. They had that scow to load the heavy pieces of material on the to haul them up. It was only short distance and in bad water. In that section of the river between North wash and Hanson Creek we encountered rapids. There were sand bars along most everywhere in the river, but not there, that was tolerably free, because from North wash down to Bullfrog rapids there is more 3626 swift water than any one place in the large Glen Canyon. I observed that the different stages of the river caused rearrangement of the sand bars in that section of the river. After every high water and during the summer floods that would come down the side canyons, the channel of the river would change continually. |