OCR Text |
Show 893 Three of them took three boats and went down the Colorado on a prospecting trip to below Lees Ferry . . Saw no other prospectors between ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing to Lees Ferry . Walked from California bar to Hite . , , some 35 or 40 miles , for his mail . ( R . 3482 . ) Trip to Lees Ferry interesting trip , contending against river , elements , winds ; some not large rapids ; ; good deal of swift water . Left Colorado River at mouth of Soap Creek Rapids and went on foot to Flagstaff . ( R . 3483 . ) Spent from September , 1894 , to 1st of April , 1895 , ) on this trip from point on San Juan River to where he left the Colorado River . ( R . 3483-3484 . ) Was prospecting . Was on San Juan next in 1928 . Believes he lost a big boat on the Colorado River in the spring of 1895 . ( R . 3485 . ) Just below the mouth of the San Juan ; wind was blowing upstream so hard , , such high and choppy waves they could not get along . Boats were tied up , but big boat became loose and was gone . ( R . 3487 . ) Their supplies and equipment were in the big boat ; ; three miles below they found the boat stranded on a ( submerged subnierged ) sand bar . The boat had gone through the rapid alone , but rapid was not so bad after wind had gone down ; this rapid is the roughest water between the ( niouth mouth ) of the San Juan and Lees Ferry . ( R . . 3488-3490 . ) Portaged in going into Aztec Rapid , lined the boats partially light . : ( 1.1307-31-VOL 1130731VOL ) . 2-11 |