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Show Record 3154 or twenty- five miles or more below Hall's Crossing. At that point we built a trail down the river and out of the canyon on one side. In our operations we didn't get any oil to speak of, no oil of commerical quantity. T. Cummings Bennett testified on cross examination as follows: 3155 Shock Rapids are named after Dr. Shock, who is now dead. On the occasion in October, 1920, when I went upstream with Mr. Bennett and Mr. Hay to get a raft that had been stuck at a place where the water was only knee deep, I walked to the shore on the right- hand bank going down, which was the side of the river on which the raft was stuck, but I did not walk to the shore on the 3156 other side of the river. I wouldn't attempt to wade it on the other side because it was too deep and the waves were too high. After we got our raft loose from that point we came on down the river and again were stuck at Shock Rapid. There was no deeper water there. The raft simply ran on to a rock at that point. 3157 The top of the rock was probably seven or eight inches under water and off to the side of the rock it was about knee deep. the rock was a point of the bed rock that sticks up there. We had about twenty- four hundred pounds on the raft. We started downstream with the raft in the afternoon, right after lunch, and camped for the night as it got dark. It was in July and would be 3158 dark about seven or seven- thirty. It was not in July but in October, and when you are in the canyon it may get dark earlier. 3159 I don't know at what time the sun sets there in October. The raft trip I am referring to is that I took with Messrs. Bennett and Hay when we went up ten or eleven miles to get the raft. We left in the afternoon and camped some where about five o'clock, at about sunset. It is only three or four miles down there and about six or eight miles from Shock Rapid to our camp, where we arrived about noon next day and unloaded all of the equipment from the 3160 raft. We tried to avoid losing any of our equipment and succeeded. |
