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Show 808 Ferry, Mr. Thomas Johnson was living there, and one other man by the name of Huntington. He couldn't say whether there was any difference in the channel of the river through Glen Canyon between his first and second trips, or as to whether or not the sandbars were Located in the same place. The road from Less Ferry to Johnson City was just a kind of a trial road, a distance of about ninety miles. They made the trip with a team and spring wagon. He believes that it must be about two hundred and fifty miles; something like that, from Less Ferry to the railroad. R. 1915- 1916. He made another trip down the Colorado River in the spring of 1893. He was in charge of his expedition. he thought that there were a Jot of tourists who would like to see the Colorado River from the upper end and, as he had recently been down in that country, he thought it would be possible to operate a boat down from Greenriver to the junction of the Green and the Colorado Rivers, and take tourists down there. Previous to this time some parties from Salt Lake and Rawlings, Wyoming, had shipped a steam launch in to [ Green-river, Utah] from Chicago, which had been launched, run down as far as the Wheeler ranch and abandoned. He leased that boat and made an attempt to see what he could do with the river. R. 1916- 1917. This boat was known as the Major Powell, and he be-lieves was about thirty- five feet long, with and eight foot beam, equipped with an upright boiler with two six horse en-gines, connected to win screws, and drew about eighteen inches. R. 1916. This boat had been laying there for a |
