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Show 1003 They left Greenriver in July, 1914. The river was up pretty well, and they had a terrible trip. " I had between fifteen and eighteen thousand [ second] feet more water in 1914 than I had in 1907; and if I hadn't known where I was, I wouldn't have known the canyon, there was that much difference. There was rapids that was mild affairs in 1907 that was ragers in 1914; other rapids that was bad in 1907 that had entirely disappeared in 1914. " And the big drop, what I said was locally known as cataract 16, it was a fury." " Q. What boats did you have? " A. We has two Muller steel boats that was made for pleasure; they was about a depth of twelve inches, and we tried to deck them over, build bulk heads in them and deck them over, but we couldn't make them water tight. That is where our trouble came." R. 2375. Of the other three steel boats that he had [ 1907] two were lost below Lees Ferry by Russell and Monette and the third steel boat was not kept by him between 1907 and 1914 because it got swamped and went down the river. When he was living at Red Canyon he made a flat bottom boat for himself. The Muller boats drew about seven inches of water. They could not draw much more because they were not very deep; that was the trouble with the boats. These Muller boats had keels. R. 2375- 2376. From Greenriver down to the mouth of the San Rafael no trouble was encountered because there was an increase in the flow of water, and they had quite a bit more than they had in 1907. They made good time. " Q. Did you have any difficulty negotiating the rapids? " A. No, there is no rapids there - Auger is a little |
