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Show Record the Colorado to Moab. I was working for the State, trapping. 1091 There were two of us on that trip. My next trip was in the fall of 1926. I started at Ouray, Utah, and went down the Green River to its junction with the Colorado and then up the Colorado to Lockhart. Dave Fraughten 1094 was with me. We were trapping for the State, trapping beavers. My next trip was with my brother from Westwater on the Grand River to Moab. We were trapping for the State of Utah. 1095 That was in 1926 or 1927, I don't just remember. In 1927 I hauled lumber from Greenriver City down to North wash to build boats. That was the year my brother took the Eddy party down the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. We built the boats at the mouth of North wash. That was where we wanted to 1096 start from on that expedition. After we built our boats at the 1097 North wash, I would judge we were on the river 20 days. We built two boats. During those 20 days we went down the river on a trip, I would say probably 180 miles. We were placering, prospecting, and we had a fellow along who wanted to look at the river for the purpose of putting a sight- seeing boat on from Lees Ferry up. We brought our supplies that we were going to take with us on the boats to North wash, where we built the boats. We left the river at Lees Ferry. We did not have a motor a either boat. 1106 In navigating the river from the Dirty Devil down to Lees Ferry and from the junction of the Green and the Colorado 1107 Rivers up to Moab, I would say that I had more difficulty in going up the Grand ( Colorado) River to Moab than I did in going down from the Dirty Devil to Lees Ferry. That was merely because in one place I was going down stream and on the other place I was pulling up stream. I did not have any more difficulty in going from the mouth of the Dirty Devil down to Lees Ferry than I had in going from the mouth of the San Rafael down to the mouth of the Green River. There is no part of the river where a man, if he can boat at all, and knows his business, will not be able to surmount the difficulties. |