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Show 4155 McDonald- D 2175 Q Tell me about going through Cataract. A We lined the boats through Cataract. But even lining them through, they found out we were too heavy loaded then. Mr. Hughes and Reynolds -- I can't think of his name -- they threw away good overcoats that was worth forty- five dollars or fifty dollars, in Cataract, to lighten up, rather than portage and load the boats any more; they had them overloaded going down; they thought they would need them; they throwed them out; they throwed blankets worth twelve or fifteen dollars a pair to one side and left then in Cataract canyon. We lost three boats there. The Black Betsy, the boat they thought would go through, was the first boat that went to pieces; nobody in it, though; we didn't take any chances. We bad the lines fast to it; we would run the line down here ( indicating) and a man stationed here ( indicating), and there, and there ( indicating). We would shove the boat off in here ( indicating); this man would throw the line over a rock, and the next one, as she checked up going down, so as to give the boat a clear run. The first boat after the Black Betsy run on to a rock; just as soon as she did that, the water piled over her gunnel and turned her completely over and tore the bottom out of her, in Cataract canyon. |