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Show Record filled with water and everything was swept out except myself and 1788 the supplies that were under the canvas covers of the boat. I succeeded in getting over to the sand bar, pulled the boat up on the bank and tipped the water out of it. Through Narrow Canyon the river is much less turbulent than Cataract Canyon, but there are still some patches of swift water. Below the mouth of the Dirty Devil the stream becomes more quiescent. We ran all the water in Narrow Canyon and encountered no difficulties between the end of Narrow Canyon and Lee's Ferry, except grounding on 1789 sand bars. We did not resupply our boat at any place between Green River, Utah, and Lee's Ferry, carrying enough supplies in our boats with us. I met three men from Searchlight, Nevada, in Glen Canyon at a point twenty or twenty- five miles up from Lee's Ferry, and when we proceeded on these men were still there. 1790 I met Fred Gibbons at dandy Crossing and saw Cass Hite a little lower down. We got some mail at the post office eat Hite. The placer claims had been abandoned between my two trips. On this last trip I met Bet Loper somewhere about the middle of Glen Canyon; he was on the east side, pulling his boat upstream by a 1791 line. We saw Stanton's dredge above Hall's Crossing, but it was wrecked and showed no evidences of having been operated re-cently. It had sunk and was nearly all covered with mud and water. We reached Lee's Ferry on the afternoon of October 27, thus having consumed sixteen days on our trip from Green River to Lee's 1792 Ferry. We had arranged to have supplies meet us at Lee's Ferry but there were none there and we did not resupply until we got them at El Tovar Hotel at Grand Canyon. In my opinion I could not have taken my boat from Lee's Ferry up to Hite, Utah, alone; 1793 possibly I could have done so, I don't know, but I wouldn't have wished to try it. I possibly could have taken my boat from the mouth of the Green River to Green River, Utah, but I could not have rowed all the way; it would depend a good deal on the stage of water. |