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Record in the canyon during the months of October and November and when I got ready to leave Mr. Knox of Columbus, Ohio, and Mr. Galloway accompanied me in one of Stanton's boats. From our camp near the mouth of Trachyte Creek down the Colorado River to Lee's Ferry 1769 on several occasions we grounded and had to get out to work the boat over sand bars. There were quite a number of riffles, de-pending on the stage of water. There were not what you would call rapids. The only rapid is at Aztec Creek, where it is a little bit 1770 unquiet. In speaking of Glen Canyon I refer to all section of the 1771 river between the lower end of Narrow Canyon and Lee's Ferry. When I was there, the only placer apparatus in use consisted or rockers 1772 and cradles. I think a prospector down near Hall's Crossing had a boiler and some other equipment. Stanton's supplies came in over-land. The Stanton nest that came up from Lee's Ferry was about eighteen or twenty feet long, rather heavily constructed, and pro- 1773 pelled by cars. I next saw the Colorado River in the fall of 1909. We began our river journey at Green River, Wyoming, and proceeded downstream as far as Needles, California. The boats used on that trip were built very light, of cork pine, 16 feet long, 4 foot beams, and 8 inches deep. They weighed about two hundred and 1774 forty pounds empty. They were keel boats, having, generally spea-king, a draft of probably five or six inches. There were four boats, three boats carrying one man each and one boat carrying two men. 1775 Mr. Nathaniel Galloway of our party noted as guide and had had a great deal of experience on the river. We covered the open county between Green River, Wyoming, and the north Utah line in about three or four days, encountering some sand and mud bars that did not amount to anything but caused us a little bother in getting off them here and there. We then entered the canyons, encountering a 1776 slight difficulty in Red canyon, where my boat ran part way on rock, but it didn't take over two minutes to get off. Then at Ashley Falls I suddenly broke one car but got through all right and we went on to Alhambra, Utah, and went to Vernal, located about |
