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Show The next time I saw Glen 44 Canyon was in 1891 , when I was with a party of eight in charge of J . D . Best , Harry McDonald being head boatman and Elmer Kane and L . H . Jewell being also boatmen . ( R . 1902-3 , Vol . 10 . ) We left Green River , Utah , in ( July Xuly ) , 1891 , with two boats like those used on the Stanton expedition . They were 22 feet long with a 41 2 foot beam and a , depth of 32 inches . We encountered no difficulties between Green River , Utah , and the mouth of the San Rafael except that we grounded at ( Devil's Devils ) Auger and shipped water . ( R . 1904-5 , Vol . 10 . ) In going through Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons our boats ( didn't didnt ) ground as frequently as on my later trip but there were plenty of sand bars . ( From Ii7rom ) the mouth of the Green to Cataract Canyon we encountered no ( difficulty difficult3r ) . ( R . 1906-7 , Vol . 10 . ) We lost a boat in running Rapid No . 13 in Cataract Canyon . ( R . 1908 , Vol . 10 . ) At Hite we picked up a flat bottom boat and repaired it and continued on with that and our other boat to Lees Ferry . ( R . 1912 , Vol . 10 . ) ( I 1 ) ( don't dont dont ) recall encountering any sand bars between Narrow Canyon and Hite . On the way down we staked off several claims and had more or less trouble with bars . ( R . 1913-14 , Vol . 10 . ) ( I 1 ) ( can't cant ) say whether I noticed any difference in the channel of the river through Glen Canyon between my first and second trips . ( R . 1915 , Vol . 10 . ) In 1893 ( I 1 ) and some others leased a steam launch that had been abandoned at ( Wheeler's Wheelers ) ranch and we intended to ( in- in ) vestigate the possibility of navigating the river with tourists . This boat had been abandoned in 1891 and was ( known 'known known ) as ( the t1he ) Major Powell ; it was about 35 feet long , had a beam of 8 feet and a draft of about 18 inches . We repaired the Major Powell and started down stream , three of us on board . It had been changed from an oil burner so that it would burn wood . We would travel until we ran out of wood and then stop and gather more for fuel . We had plenty of difficulty with sand bars and stopped about a quarter of a mile above the first cataract in Cataract Canyon . Coming back upstream , we had less difficulty because we could back off from sand bars , but we required more wood . The water had risen between our downstream and upstream trips . We took the Major Powell back up to ( Wheeler's Wheelers ) ranch . ( R . 1916-22 , Vol . 10 . ) We took a later trip at a higher stage of water and the bars had shifted so that information as to channel gained on our first trip was not of much use . On our return journey on the second trip we had ( consider- consider ) |