OCR Text |
Show 734 The stage of water during the time he was there was fairly uniform. Sometimes it got rather low, but there was no great flood at that time. The sand and mud bars were shifting to a greater or less extent in the volume of the current, making a constant rearrangement. He was there in the months of October and November, and when he left he was accompanied by Mr. Galloway, a western men [ Nathan Galloway], and a Mr. Knox, who had accompanied him into Glen canyon from Columbus, Ohio, and was also interested in the mining venture. The three of them took one of Stanton's boats and started down the Colorado River from near the mouth of Trachyte Creek. They descended the mouth of the Colorado River to Lees Ferry, Arizona, where they left the river and rent out across the desert [ overland] to Flagstaff [ Arizona], where they took a train for home. R. 1768. " Q. From what point did you start on that trip - what point in Glen canyon did you start down? " A. From near the mouth of Trachyte creek. " Q. Do you recall the progress of that trip down stream? " A. Yes. " Q. Just tell me about it with particular reference to sandbars, if any, and rapids and riffles. " A. We grounded several times on the way down on shallows, and two or three times had to get out in the water and work the boat over the bars. " Q. Did you encounter any rapids or riffles? " A. Yes, there are quite a numbers of riffles depending |