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Show in the ( channel cbann6l ) of the river 5G6 through Glen Canyon between his first and second trips , or as to whether or not the sand bars were located in the same place . The road from Lees Ferry to Johnson ( Oity City ) was just a kind of a trail road , a distance of about ninety miles . They ( made niade ) the trip with a team and spring wagon . He believes that it must be about two ( hundred'und hundredund ) fifty ( irniles-something irnilessomething ) like that ( from fi7om ) Lees ( Perry Ferry ) to the railroad . ( ( E R ) . 1915-1916 . ) He made another trip down the Colorado River in the spring of 1893 . He was in charge of this expedition . He thought that there were a lot of tourists who would like to see the Colorado River from the upper end and , as he had ( recently r6cently ) been down ( in 1"n 1n ) that country , he thought it would be ( pos- pos ) sible 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 stealn ) launch ( into iinto ) [ Greenriver , Utah ] from ( Chi- Chi ) cago , 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 ivIiat ) he could , do with the river . ( R . 1916-1917 . ) This boat was known as the Major Powell , and he believes was about ( thirty-five thirtyfive ) feet long , with an ( eight-foot eightfoot ) beam , equipped with an upright boiler with two ( six-horse sixhorse ) engines , connected to twin screws , and drew about eighteen inches . . ( R . . 1916 . ) This boat ( had bad ) been laying there for a year |