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Show Record naries of finding the channel on the second trip as we had done 1924 on the first. The second trip took about the same length of time as the first. Going back up the river we had quite serious trouble at the junction in getting the boat out of the Colorado River. The then Grand River had had some flood and our boat was not strong enough to pull us out of there, so that we had to use our block and tackle and line along the shore in order to proceed up the Grand River. On the second trip we went on up to Wheeler's ranch and there tied the boat up. In 1894 I was over on the Green River with a mining company at a point seven or eight miles below Green River bridge. While we were there four fellows 1925 brought the Major Powell up to our camp and abandoned it. I should judge our camp was about fifteen miles from Wheeler's ranch. They took the engine and boilers off the Major Powell and used them for a wrecking plant at the town of Green River. I think the hull went down the river. The Rio Grande Western Railroad furnished us transportation and did everything they could to help us along, but they did not finance our enterprise. On our second trip we had a newspaper man by the name of Lute Johnson with us, it being the intention that he would give us publicity. 1926 I went to a point about forty miles below Bluff on the San Juan 1927 River during the placer mining book of 1892. I went there from Green River, Utah, by way of Hanksville and Hite, where I crossed the Colorado River, and thence overland to the San Juan River. On my return trip I came back through Red Canyon, where I picked up an old boat and dropped down fifteen of twenty miles to some placer mines on the Colorado, then towed the boat back up to where we had our animals, recrossed the river, and came back to Green River, Utah, by way of Hanksville. I noticed no difference with respect to population in that country on that trip and when I went 1928 through there on the Stanton expedition. When we crossed at Dandy Crossing in December and January, 1892- 1893, we waded our stock across. We saw no placer miners there at that time. When we arrived |