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Show 629 sat on the middle cabin of our boat. Captain Francis M. Bishop of Salt Lake City, who is eighty- seven years old, is the only other living survivor of the Powell Expedition. R. 1518- 1519. The boats were made in Chicago and were well con-structed of one- half inch oak, double- ribbed fore and aft and very strong, " as boat has to be which hoes down the Colorado." R. 1519. " Q. Did you also carry as equipment life- preservers? " A Yes, we had rubber life- preservers; they weren't very good. They were in the way when we rowed. But they were carried, a life- a preserver of the old, sausage type, the only thing we could get at that time. " Today the men all use a newer kind, like a jacket, which buttons on. Mr. Stanton always insisted on the men wearing their life preservers every time they went on the river." R. 1519. This expedition left Green River, Wyoming, May 22, 1817, and except for a few sand- bars which they ram on, was easily negotiated for eighty miles. They then entered Flaming Gorge, the starting of the canyon region. The river is then canyoned for about one thousand miles with the exception of Brown's Park and the Uintah Basin. Below Flaming Gorge, Red Canyon is entered, which is about twenty- five miles long and very precipitous the fall, he believes, being three hundred or four hundred feet in this twenty- five miles. Lodore Canyon, one of the most difficult canyons on |
