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Show 614 " A. talus slopes, large boulders, on one side or the other. " Q. All the distance, or at different spots? " A. I believe there are talus slopes on one side or the other all the way through. There are no box canyons except at the last rapid, there is one there that is boxed. " Q. That is at the last rapid? " A. Yes sir." R. 1486. From the end of Cataract Canyon they went on down to Lees Ferry. " Q. Just describe your trip from the end of Cataract canyon down to Lees Ferry. " A. We already had the traverse run from the mouth of Fremont [ Sic Fremont] on the previous trip we had worked that, so we tied in our line at the Fremont [ Sic Fremont] liver, went on down as far as Hite; we tried to repair the motor. " We didn't have the material to repair it, so we went on to Bull Frog Creek and picked up our line there, that is, our line of traverse, and worked on down to somewhere around the mouth of the San Juan River, where Mr. Trimer sic Trimble was working; there were several parties working in that neighborhood; we just joined up with their work. " But as soon as we got out of Cataract Canyon the Kolbs took the boats, except one; we only had the one boat from there on down, one of the larger -- one of the sixteen- foot boats." R. 1486- 1487. Through Glen Canyon to Lees Ferry " we had shoals, sandbars, sand waves from there on down; we had larger |