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Show 295 or at Whirlpool. A valley commences directly bellow Split Mountain that reaches past Jensen and the descent of the river is much less than in the Canyons up above; the river widens out and there are cattle ranches on either side. R. 780. They made the run down to Jensen in a day. Jensen, Utah, is near Vernal. He calls it quiet water when the running about two or three miles an hour. R. 781. " If I might explain, most of the canyons seem to have the violent rapids; out in the valleys the water is comparatively quiet, different altogether from the water that we would find in these upper canyons. R. 781. They stopped at Jensen and went out to Vernal and then from Jensen to Ouray. They made the run in a day and a half. It had rained a good deal and they had a favorable high water stage. R. 781. After they left the valley they got in what is called Desolation Canyon. The walls are not high at first and the water is quiet through the greater section. Towards the lower end of Desolation Canyon they began to find rapid water and rocks again. This happened above Rock Creek that might be forty or fifty miles above Greenriver, Utah. Rock Creek is on the east side of Greenriver above McPherson's ranch. McPherson had a trail up there and would drive his cattle up there. R. 782. " We found numerous bad rapids through that section. By bad rapids, I mean rapids that would have a fall of twelve or fifteen feet; most of that fall would come at the beginning of the rapid. |
