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Show Record to get it off the rocks and it was necessary for me to get in 3285 the water myself. The water in this ledge in Lake Canyon at that time varied in depth from nothing to over my head. There would be cracks and large deep places, may be as much as this room, and then shallow places. The narrow deep places would run in all directions. The breaks in the Ledge where there was deeper water were not wide enough for me to get my raft through. By watching 3286 what you were doing you could get a small row boat over them if 3287 it didn't draw over a foot of water and wasn't too long. At Lake Rapid the rock bottom is very rough; you can't walk straight across the river there without dropping out of sight. In places you would go into a crack and crop out of sight and probably you would find some places where the water would be only six inches deep, maybe less and maybe more. In going through there we had to pry the raft off two or three places, and once we unloaded the raft for maybe one hundred yards or something like that . In the winter of 1894- 1895 there were something over a hundred prospectors along from Hite to Hall's Crossing. I thing there were more than one hundred signers to a petition for a post office there. In the fall of 1896 or 1897 Ed Meskin and I made a trip to 3288 Lee's Ferry in a small row boat. It was not extremely low water. When we got below the San Juan River we had a lot of sand waves and at a lot of places had trouble finding our way through. At times we would get on sand bars and push our boat off; we would run up on the bars where we mistakenly thought the channel was and finally would go back and find a small channel; almost always we found a channel for that boat. I do not recall the points at which we encountered difficulties on that trip, but we traveled both 3289 below and above Aztec Rapid finding a channel. It was not a straightaway trip to Lee's Ferry because we did some prospecting on the way down. After arriving at Lee's Ferry we turned around and came back up the river to Meskin Bar, located about twenty miles below Warm Creek. Coming upstream we loped and worked along. We |