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Show 981 " A We continued on with the same difficulties until we came out to Clay Hill crossing, then I told you about having to drag the boats nearly through Indian Farms. " After getting through that section of the river all we had to do - the party was out surveying; I had the two boats to handle. " Q How much help did you have? " A I didn't have any, ordinarily; I will tell you about the help; H. E. Blake, Jr., was a rod man; the first narrows, ten miles below Chinle creek, or one hundred and twenty- three miles above the junction, is the first place we had to break Mr. Blake in, because I was in the habit of taking a boat down the river and tying it up, then coming back up the river to get the other boat and take it down and tie it up. [ R. 2329- 2330] " When we came to the Narrows I couldn't go down and come back up; there was no place to walk, there was no place to get around; that is where we broke Mr. Blake in to boating; he boated through there, and then he didn't boat any more until we struck the second narrows, which is about twenty- seven or twenty- eight miles below Chinle creek. " That was a long loop; the river made a long loop, must have been half a mile in there was no way to walk, at all, and big sand waves in there. Mr. Trimble had to climb these terraces up to the top of this hill, - and Mr. Blake, and I guess maybe Mr. Hyde and Hugh Miser, they had with them for a cool head, - Mr. Blake was a new boatman - they made that trip, filled the boat half full of water all around, to where Mr. Trimble could look down and get his point. " Mr. Allen and Mr. Trimble and Mr. Christensen and myself went through. |
