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Show Record of rowing, towing and poling as I have described. At Bull Frog Rapid we built a raft out of part of the cabin of the old 3150 dredge that is there. This raft was about twenty feet long and ten feet wide, In two sections that were possibly a foot thick. We made it of floor lumber nailed to two by fours and had three layers of that character stacked one on top of the other. the two section were fastened together by ropes and cables. We took the raft down the river without any load to Rincon and below Lake Canyon Rapid the raft hung up on a bad rock and we had to pull it clear off the bed rock until we got it below where the bed rock 3151 sticks up. We got out into the water at that point and I waded clear across. The greatest depth I found was about two feet and that would be only for stretches that weren't wide enough in the deepest part to get our raft through. We thought we were in the channel, but weren't positive of it, and that is the reason I waded and we were at the only place where we could pole our raft through. At Shock Rapid our raft ran aground and " busted up". it ran on the rock and we took and caught the raft down below, 3152 reassembled it and took it on to Rincon. We rook this raft down so as to have lumber with which to build a house. In December I made a trip to to Hall's Crossing in our boat, towing, poling and rowing upstream. Mr. Hay accompanied me and we left Rincon after lunch one day, camped that night at Anderson Bar, and arrived at Hall's Crossing next morning at ten o'clock, which was considered a very fast trip. The river was so shallow that I got out and waded most of the distance, towing the boat while Mr. Hay poled from the stern. I didn't return with the boat to our 3153 camp until April of the next year. We went up to water Pocket Fold and did some assessment work and then went back to Rincon with our horses, taking in supplies with us which had been sent from Torrey, Utah, to the Baker ranch, located about twelve miles from the Colorado River. When I left the river and went to Salt Lake, I went out through Navajo Gulch, which is probably twenty- |