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Show 1367 Creek , and then boated to camp , a distance of about a mile . During that time he made trips to Moquie Bar and to Tickaboo Bar , rowing , poling , and towing up stream ; also doing some sailing . ( R . 5307 . ) A sail was made by putting a staff up on the end of the boat and using a piece of canvas . He did not sail up the rapids at Tickaboo that year but has sailed up them on a later occasion by aiding the boat some with a pole . He has also sailed up the rapids without aiding the boat . He has taken boatloads of some twelve to fifteen hundred pounds to Moquie Bar and to Tickaboo Bar on the river and rafted mostly timber from ten to twelve feet wide and twenty to ( twenty-four twentyfour ) feet long . ( R . 5308 . ) In 1897 and 1898 he worked on Tickaboo Bar and received supplies at the mouth of Hanson Creek . During that year he had more experience than during ( the -the the ) year 1896-1897 . He did more work . In 1898 he ( went -went went ) down the Colorado River from Moquie Bar to Independence or Shock Bar , somewhere around fifteen miles below Halls Crossing . On this trip he had a raft twenty to ( twenty-four twentyfour ) feet long and ten or twelve ( feet -feet feet ) wide , and a boat ; there being eight persons in the party . On the raft they carried grain , supplies , mining machinery , and rails . ( R . 5309 . ) On that trip the boat , which was twenty feet long , carried probably ( twenty-five twentyfive ) hundred pounds of material . and the raft carried in the neighborhood of one ( thou- thou ) ( sand -sand sand ) or fifteen hundred pounds of lumber and three |
