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Show 4159 McDonald- D 2179 Q I know, but whereabouts on the river? A Oh, in Cataract canyon, when we were coming through, but they hadn't busted the thing clear through, just broke the ribs; we knew they would have to be stiffened. I ripped out inch stuff, half- inch stuff, and put on three new strips, lap strips, cut them and put on one of the boats. We left Hite and pulled out for the San Juan. We had trouble all the way down the river -- had trouble several times down there. Q Tell me what you mean by trouble. A Running on to the bars and on to rocks. There is one place there where there is a shelf runs across the river; it is not as level as the floor, but apparently as level under water; it must be anyway nearly one hundred yards in width, but it runs clear across the river; that is a ledge of rock; I don't know whether it is slate, or what it is, sandstone or what, but it runs clear across the river, and you have got to find an opening to get a boat through. That is where the river is cut in one or two places. We run on to that -- every boat run on to that; we got out, held on to the boat, pushed back up into deeper water, and kept feeling and working across you couldn't see, too much sand working in the river,-- feeling across until we came to an |
