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Show Record into the wall rock, but with hard work managed to keep from 3135 striking it and continued on to Hall's Crossing, where we landed and unloaded the raft. From Hall's Crossing we went on downstream in a row boat and our raft. Below Lake Canyon Rapid there was a larger whirlpool that we couldn't row out of, so we had to line our boat out of that whirlpool, and then we proceeded on down the river to Rincon. After arriving there I returned with my uncle, Frank Bennett, and two other men upstream to Hall's Cross 3136 ing. At one point below Lake Canyon Rapid it was too swift for us to row up, so they rowed up as far as they could and I climbed over a ledge and caught a line and pulled them up over the swift water. We also had to line over the rapids because the water was so high and swift there. This upstream trip was about twenty- two miles and we made it in two days. We towed wherever we could be-cause it was much easier to tow where you could walk than it was 3137 to row. I didn't go back down with the boat but took our horses overland to Rincon. We also had a drilling rig with us and used the wooden portions of it in our raft. I helped assemble the raft and waited until they got started and then took the horses around overland. The river party arrived at Rincon first. I went to a ranch and stayed until the next morning before starting out. 3138 Some of our supplies were brought to us from Hall's Crossing by boat and some of them were packed in over trails. The deepest hole we drilled for old was one hundred and forty feet, and our hole nearest to the river was about one hundred and fifty feet 3139 from the water's edge. 3140 ( The witness is shown Exhibits 221 and 222 and, referring to a point shown on said exhibits, states that the place where they drilled was down the cove behind the point he indicates on the picture.) The one hundred and forty foot hole drilled by us was above high water mark, as were all of the other holes. We fixed high water mark at a shelf of sand with vegetation on it that runs out |