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Show 669 He could get down to the river near the Crossing of the Fathers, at that point the rim being only about one hundred feet above the river. There are many places you can get down where the Indians had been crossing, and the only place above there you can get down is at the mouth of Bridge Canyon, it being necessary to go around about thirty- five miles to get from one trail to the other. He would take his pack and saddle stock with the party that he would have down to the river, where he could get a boat, swim the stock, cross the river and go on the other side. R. 1606. The places he usually crossed were at Lees Ferry, the mouth of Red Canyon and Hite. Hite is also know as Dandy Crossing, the actual crossing being about eight miles above, or five miles above where White Canyon comes in, and is where the old Dandy Ferry used to be. This ferry was there from 1897 to 1881 or 1882, and was first used by an outlaw band that was in there, and then he believes the Mormons used it in crossing into Bluff in 1880. He never used this Ferry himself. R. 1607. When he crossed at Hite he used a boat that might be owned by different people who would be in there at the time, sometimes one person and sometimes another. He recalls a boat owner by the name of Humphreys, and another, John Hite. Whoever happened to be there would own a boat and they crossed in it. R. 1608. |
