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Show Record We loaded our outfit into the boat and left the scow there. Then we started back up the river through the rapids. At the eleventh 3495 rapid there was a big shelving rock and we found in white paint on this rock the following inscription: " F. H. Wright passed here in 1876; lost one boat in this rapid." I later met Wright in Prescott, Arizona, and he told me something of his trip down the river. He was a miner or prospector. We went back up the Colorado River with our boat to Moab, rowing when we could and towing when we could find a sand bar along which the current of the river ran, because if we could find such a place it was easier than ro-wing. We poled some. I poled because I was fairly good at poling. 3496 We were quite a little while making the trip at Cataract Canyon and back to Moab because after we reached the gravel bars we began prospecting and the entire trip back up to Moab consumed something like two weeks. In 1916 my partners and I went overland via Green River and Hanksville to Dandy Crossing, taking lumber and supplies with us. We did not build our boats at Green River, Utah, and go down the river because there was ice on the Green River and we were anxious to get through, our objective being the San Juan River. We intended to go down to the mouth of the San Juan and then go up that 3497 river to some country we wished to prospect. It was a very severe winter and the Green River was frozen over very heavily, so after staying there for a while and waiting for the ice to leave, we de-cided to go overland to Hite and build our boat down there. After we had built out boat we went down the Colorado River to the Narrows, where we remained six weeks or two months. This was quite a ways above the San Juan River and we were stopped by an ice gorge and decided to try to reach the San Juan overland on foot. However, the San Juan River was open and clear and we couldn't get across it to the territory we wished to reach, so we had to give it up. 3498 This occurred in the latter part of January and early part of February |