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Show 858 with a slope to it; it wasn't level. " Q. You mean stretching entirely across the river? " A. Yes. " Q. Grado you mean breaks in it? " A. There were breaks, because we finally got out boats through. " Q. How wide breaks? " A. Few feet, or ten or fifteen feet in places; the rocks had worn off or been knocked off with floods by other rocks rolling on the bottom; this is a sand rock, and not very hard, wear down, probably, in time; only very few places on the Green River or Glen canyon where there are any of those reefs. " The formation lies generally flat, a little pitch to the northeast, of sand rock and shall [ sic shale], sedimentary formation. I am not a geologist, but I have done a lot of traveling, and I learned a little something about these things." R. 2017. He believes they arrived at Lee's Ferry on the twenty- sixth of August [ 1895]; and they tied the boats up and stayed there for six weeks while Mr McDonald, and Mr. Best went back to Denver to see whether they should get another boat, or stop there and get a pack outfit to prospect, and get to the fairy story mine. Mr. McDonald and Mr. Best eventually returned from Denver, and they decided to leave the boat there, and get a pack outfit. " We didn't think it was safe to go through with one boat." R. 2018. ( Testimony ordered stricken out. R. Vol. 11 - p. 2019.) Mr. Hyslop and he walked from Lees Ferry to |
