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Show 719 forty thousand second feet. He left Lees Ferry in the morning about 6: 00 o'clock and didn't have any difficulties until he got about four miles above there. At that point, the water was do swift he had difficulty in getting through the channel. He kept as close to the shore as possible and the men with him had an oar to pole where the water was shallow enough to help the boat through. He estimates it took him two hours to make about one hundred- fifty. R. 1723- 1724. After he got through this place, he encountered difficul-ties running on sand- bars, but didn't have much trouble getting the boat off, as going upstream, he didn't hit them hard enough and the current would be against him so that lots of times it would wash the boat back. It took him two end a half days to go upstream and there were places where he would only make about a mile an hour. Other places where he could take advantage of the eddies he would make pretty good time. In an eddy there is a current that goes upstream that he would take advantage of, although difficulty is experienced in get-ting out of them, as one is liable to get in a pocket formed by a sand- bar at the head of the eddy so he might have to come back down stream again to get past the point of the sand- bars. In following up the eddy, he would find shallow water all around the head of it, a bar between the boat and the channel, would have to drop back down stream and come up in the current. R. Vol. 9, pp. 1724- 1725. |
