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Show Record 2195 We did not find the channel in the same place as it was on the first Stanton expedition between the town of Green River and Cataract Canyon. Through that stretch we had the same trouble getting on bars and hunting channels and getting on rocks. This occurred sometimes two or three times a day, when we would have to get in the water and back the boat off and feel for the channel. We lost one boat through Cataract Canyon and ran all of 2196 the rapids. I don't think we portaged any rapid on that trip. We had lots of trouble in going through Glen Canyon as a result of getting on sand bars, but the channel in Glen Canyon was not as bad or as changeable as on the Green River; bust in places it changed and you would run on to a bar. There was more water on the Best expedition than on the second stanton expedition and about the same stage of water as on the first Stanton expedition. 2197 On the Best expedition we again ran on to the ledge of which I have spoken and had to hunt around before we could get our boats through. I don't think the water averages more than six or 2198 eight inches over that ledge. The ledge is maybe not quite one hundred yards wide, but I would say between seventy- five and one hundred yards. We encountered Trachyte and Bull Frog Rapids in Glen Canyon. The Best expedition did not get any supplies on its way down. It seems to me like we got some supplies from the 2199 Wheeler brothers. I left the Best Expedition at Lee's we bought horses and worked along parallel to the Colorado River and west 2200 from Lee's Ferry mining. Four or five months later I again returned 2201 turned to Glen Canyon to work for myself. The Stanton was brought from the Pacific coast and hauled from Green River, Utah, overland to Glen Canyon. It was an eighty- two bucket dredge and worked sixty yards of gravel an hour. We could dig in twenty- eight 2202 eight feet of water with it. The material for the dredge came 284 1401 |