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Show ( back badr ) to ( mouth niouth ) of Piute 250 . Cache of food at mouth of San Juan River left by Mr . ( Wimincr Winimer ) . ( Addi Addi- Addi ) tional supplies from boats of Kolb brothers . ( ( E R ) . 894 . ) Supplies also came from Lees Ferry to Aztec Creek . Party terminated and went from Lees Ferry to Flagstaff by automobile . Chenoweth boat left at . Lees Ferry . ( R . 894-895 . ) First trip on Green River with father in 1909 . Made trip with Government survey party in 1922 from Green River , Wyoming , to nine miles above Greenriver , Utah . On San Juan River near Four Corners . ( R . 896-897 . s Boats used on Green River trip of 1922 were 18- ft . Galloway type boats with covered decks fore and aft , cockpit in center , ( five-foot fivefoot ) beam , rake of about four inches , flat bottom , nonkeel . ( ° ' ) Draft empty 4 in . Seven in party , ( Mr Air ) . Trimble in charge . Draft boats loaded with 1,000 pounds , excluding men , draft eight inches . Two ( men inen ) to each boat . ( R . 898- 899 . ) He was employed as boatman and as ( rod- rod Tod- Tod ) man . Work necessitated many stops ; ( night nigbt ) stops for camping . ( R . 899-900 . ) Fairly low water through Red Canyon ; ( numerous nunierous ) projecting rocks in upper end ; sometimes unavoid ¬ able and boats would scrape or bump them ; one boat ran on rocks , and further down in canyon , the ( other otlier ) boat ran upon a rock and was pulled off by boat by taking a ( half-hitch halfhitch ) around the hatch cover ; weight of moving boat dragged the stranded boat offrock . |