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Show Record at the Narrows, where we camped for the night. Next morning two of us went with Mr. Wolverton in the boat around Bowknot Bend, the bend being nine miles around, and came back to the Narrows again that night and made camp. Next morning we started upstream with the Dispatch and skiff that Mr. Wolverton bad with him. When we reached the place where the Wilmont was tied up, we proceeded on upstream with the two boats, encountering a few sand and gravel bars between there and Wolverton's ranch, where we tied up. We remained there for three days before starting up to Green River with the Wilmont and also the Dispatch. We made the upstream journey to Green River in one day, having the usual difficulties with sand and gravel bars and at the Brown riffle. We made it up over the Brown riffle without grounding there and 3256 on to Green River without any further trouble. Later I made a trip from Green River to Little Valley, located about five miles below Green River bridge, on the Dispatch, there being no differ-ence between that trip and my first trip with reference to sand bars and shoals. One night the Dispatch wrapped itself around one of the piers of the bridge and was destroyed. It was a gasoline propelled boat. The Wilmont was a side- wheeler and also 3257 gasoline propelled. Mrs. Newby was with me on the last trip I took to Little Valley. I recall a boat known as Slapping Sal which belonged to H. T. Yokey. It was a four- cared row boat, draw-ing six or eight inches of water, and I got stuck with that boat on a flat rock in the river close to Little Valley. We had quite 3258 a time getting loose and then went on down all right. Yokey was not on that trip but I made another trip with him on the Slapping Sal and we abandoned the boat about a mile below Tenmile Bottom, which is forty- two miles below Green River bridge. Yokey and I climbed out of the canyon and came up the west side on foot; that 3259 occurred in December. Next spring we got the Slapping Sal back, and I haven't seen the boat since. At the Trap Ford, named after a man who used to live there, |