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Show 849 " We were delayed, didn't make the five miles a day, many days not over half a mile, and we lost a boat with provisions, and we lost some provisions out of another boat; we struck a rock and turned in the stream enough so the swift water carried quite a lot of it away, and by the time we got to Diamond creek we didn't have anything to eat; that is twenty- three miles to the railroad, from Pete Peach Springs, on the Santa Fe Railroad. " R. 2001. The boats that were lost on this expedition were lost below Lee's Ferry. On his next trip with the Best party a boat was lost in Cataract Canyon. The next expedition that he was on was known as the Best expedition, and left Greenriver, Utah, on the third or fourth of July, 1891. R. 2001. He heard Mr. Edwards description of the boats used and he knows of nothing that was omitted or that he would like to add to the Edwards' description. The Stanton boats steered with a long car from behind. On the Best expedition in 1891, enough supplies were taken to last them until they ranched Lee's Ferry. R. 2001- 2002. This expedition left Greenriver, Utah early in July, and landed at Lee's Ferry, he believes, on the twenty- sixth of August. R. 1891. They carried plenty of supplies to last eight men for a month, as they expected to do a lot of prospecting in Glen canyon, as that was the object of this expedition; and was a prospecting party entirely. From Greenriver, Utah, to the mouth of the Green River they were bothered a good deal with shallow water. It delayed them a lot, and made lots of hard |
