OCR Text |
Show ing operations , they ( didn't didnt ) ( 508 nos ) need to have a trail as wherever there was a flood plane one could walk ( 011 on ) that without let or hindrance , except in a few places where the willows were too thick . . ( R . 1770-1771 . ) The placer apparatus they had in there ( con con- con ) ¬ sisted of rockers , and cradles ; they carried them down ( along aloiig ) ( the"bank thebank ) , sir , he means the lumber for the purpose of making sluices and cradles and that sort of thing . ( Stanton's Stantons ) dredge was not in there at that time ; that was put ( in iri ) the next year . ( ( B R ) . 1771 . ) All of ( Stanton's Stantons ) supplies were brought in overland . None of them came either up or down the river in boats . The type of boats that Mr . ( Stanton Stauton ) used were about eighteen or twenty feet long , heavily constructed , and ( pro pro- pro ) ¬ pelled by oars . He never tried to take a row boat upstream in the [ Colorado ] river . He may have come upstream in an eddy one hundred yards or so , but as far as making any progress upstream he has not done so . The boats that he saw come back empty upstream were towed and rowed . ( R . 1772-1773 . ) He next saw the Colorado River in the fall of 1909 , when he started with four boats at Green River , ( Wyoming 11,7yoming 117yoming ) , and proceeded ( down dowil ) the Green and Colorado Rivers to Needles , California . These boats were built especially for that particular trip ; were built very light of cork ( pine phie ) , ( five-eighths fiveeighths ) of ( an aii ) inch thick , sixteen feet four inches long , with a |