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Show Record close to the public road. It would be too expensive to build a road. From the bend just above mile 64 to Mill creek the river is very wide and most always divided by visible bars between the two banks and you hardly knew which one to take to get through, as sometimes the greater depth was on the left hand and sometimes on the right hand side. At the mouth of Mill creek at one time there was a flood that came down Mill creek and filled logs and mud and everything imaginable in there for about two- thirds of the way across the river. We had trouble there for a week or ten days getting past and at times we got stuck. The stretch from Mill creek down to mile 59 is always a difficult spot. I have seen Kane creek the channel crosses the river from one side to the other about four 1174 time, I think, From Kane spring wash to mile 55 there is not much change in the current. Between mile 55 and 56 we generally have trouble, there the current takes two or three channels. Between mile 53 and 54 we had trouble because the river divides into two channels. I had no trouble between mile 52 and 53. Between mile 50 and 49 there is a sharp bend in the river with a rock in the middle of it which bothers in low water to avoid striking it. Be-tween mile 43 and 44 was where I was stuck that day and a half. There were three four channels there, and sometimes the deep 1176 water is in one of them, and sometimes in the other. Between mile 43 and 39 I have been stuck a number of time because of several channels and the deep water not being in the same channel always. Between mile 38 and 39 got stuck there a number of times, probably 1177 a half dozen. Right at Lockhart canyon I had difficulty because of two channels. The difficulties I have above enumerated I would say we have during July and August and then during December and January, 1173 during the lowest water. During January, February and March we are bothered with floating ice. We put heavy, galvanized iron on the - 157- |
