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Show 419 turns a man around, gives him a little trouble to get out of some of those," R. 1068- 1069 About four months time were consumed altogether in the three trips he made on the rivers. The only boats he over saw were some tied up along the river, belonging to private individuals. He did not see any ranches on any of these trips from the mouth of the San Rafael down to Lee's Ferry. There were some stock grazing along the rivers in different places, but there were no fertile or plowed lands. Down below the cataracts the only person he saw was an old prospector named Carpenter. The Kite ranch was deserted. R. 1069- 1070. " Q. These times you were in Glen Canyon were you not making through trips then, that is, you were stopping along the way? A. Stopping along, prospecting the bars, prospecting the outside country in places where we could climb out, and looking for mineral. " I don't know, I think probably the Glen Canyon trip, at any time I have been down through there, would be at least a twenty- day trip." R. 1070- 1071 He has boated through Spill Mountain Canyon, Desolation Canyon, and Gray Canyon. He has never been up stream on the Green River in a boat. In his opinion it would be impossible to take a boat from Greenriver, Utah up to the Colorado line. |
