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Show . . W M famine " " 1253 quiet water , and from there up to Dark Canyon there is swift water and rapids . As he understands it , Mill Creek Bend is at the foot of Cataract Canyon . He believes that it was in the spring of 1903 or ( 1904 1.904 ) that he went as a watchman on the old Stanton Dredge , and he ( con- con ) tinued in that employment for six or seven months , , and was also running the Navajo trading post . . His first supplies came in at Hanson Creek , and he boated them to the dredge . Some of his other ( sup- sup ) plies cLame in about a mile or a mile and a half ( be- be ) low the dredge at Wilson Creek . On one trip he got them from the mouth of Wilson Creek with the scow , which was formerly brought in at Hite , and it was used to bring the well rig down . as far as California Bar . This scow was afterwards taken and used for boating from the lower landing , which is called Wilson Creek , up to where the dredge was . After that there had been a four horsepower ( Fairbanks-Morse FairbanksMorse ) engine installed with a stern wheel , and he used this outfit to bring a load of supplies . This ( four-horsepower fourhorsepower ) engine had enough power to go upstream through the still water , but up above the dredge - when he got to Moquie Canyon there was a rapids there that he could not go up , , . ( R . . 4926-4927 . ) This is called Moquie Canyon Rapids , or Aztec Rapids . He did not install the ( four-horsepower fourhorsepower ) engine . It was ( al- al ) ready installed on the scow which was about . |