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Show children ( wont want ) down in row ( 112 1192 ) boats and we carried the ( house- house ) hold goods , equipment and supplies of the family on the big boat . ( R . 3600-2 , Vol . ( 20 9-0 ) . ) John P . Hite testified : I went down to Hite in 1888 ( with Nrith ) my brother , Homer J , ( Hite I-lite Ilite ) , and when he left I ( suc- suc ) ceeded him as postmaster there . ( R . ( 8605-7 03605-7 ) , Vol . 20 . ) 1 made two downstream trips from the Dirty Devil to Lees ( Ferry Perry ) and one upstream trip . ( My Aly ) first trip was with ( Stan- Stan ) ton , when six of us went down with three row boats . We , located the river bed from the Dirty Devil to Lees Ferry . There were a number of rapids on that stretch of river , ( in- in ) ( cluding1 cluding ) a very shallow rapid at Smiths Fork , ( where irliere ) we had to drag our boat a ways . The trip was made ( in 'in in ) the winter time when the river was very low . There is a rapid at the mouth of each side stream . ( R . 3608-12 , Vol . 20 . ) The boats we used were keel boats , and we brought them back up with us and also brought a big launch upstream . ( Mr Air ) . Stanton had expected to bring this launch up on its own power but it was helpless ( and aiid ) we were 26 days getting it up to the dredge . The engine in the launch would run but it ( didn't didnt ) do good work . ( Coming Corning ) up we would row , taking advantage of the eddies at the side of the river , but we had to tow at all of the rapids and were an entire day getting the big launch up over Aztec Rapids . ( R . 3612-4 , Vol . 20 . ) My nephew correctly described the scow or barge that we built for moving our equipment , and they ( didn't didnt didii't didiit ) have any trouble getting down the stream . In taking supplies down to Tickaboo we would occasionally use pack animals if a boat was not handy , but most of the time we used boats . ( R . 3614-7 , Vol . 20 . ) ( I 1 ) never did any work on the dredge but did quite a bit of ( boating- boating boating ) for Mr . Stanton . I used ( ordi- ordi ) nary row boats that were shipped in from San Francisco , and we operated those boats over the whole river between J Hite and Lees Ferry except that in coming upstream we had to drag them over the rapids . On the return trip from . Lees Ferry we took three of the Stanton boats clear up to Hite and there obtained two loads of material . ( R . 3620-3 , Vol . 20 . ) ( I 1 ) made a number of trips between Hanson Creek and camp with those keel boats and had no difficulty in ( get- get ) ting them upstream ; it was comparatively dead ( vater Nvater ) and we almost had to row going downstream . Between ( NTorth North ) Wash and Hanson Creek there were rapids but that stretch was tolerably free from sand bars because there is more swift water there than in other places in Glenn Canyon . . I |