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Show Record resupply our party at Lees Ferry. They were to be brought in by 1401 wagon from Kanab, Utah. We got some supplies from the placer miners at the mouth of the Dirty Devil. I should think there were a dozen or twenty placer miners scattered along there. At the cabin at which we stopped I remember there were seven that lived in that cabin. The cabin was above Rite. At Rite, which was then called Dandy, there weren't more 1402 than a half a dozen buildings all told. In going through Glen canyon our first rapid was at Tickaboo Creek, and it was a big one; two of the boats, I believe, got damaged. We pulled to shore and repaired them. We had more trouble at Trachyte Creek because of a bigger rapid, and all the boats sprung leaks. We stopped there nearly two days repairing boats. From Trachyte down to Lees Ferry we had trouble either striking rocks in the rapids and springing leaks, or we could not find a defined channel and would scrape on sand bars. Down towards the lower end we encountered sand waves and high win, which almost played our backs out to row it. We had no other difficulty going to Lees Ferry but the sand bars. We did not have any rapid below the San Juan but every once in a while, every few miles, one or more of the boats would run onto a sand bar. We had rough water, we did not call rapids, we just called that rough water. We left the Colorado River at Vasey's Paradise, in Marble canyon, about 45 miles below Lees Ferry. 1408 Coming down the Green and Colorado River we drank the water out of the river. Once in a while we would come across a spring. We did not strain the river water. At night the cook would dip up a bucketful and let it settle so we would have clear water to make coffee with in the morning. 1409 Our second expedition started from Denver on November 25, |
