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Show 777 practically across the river. By the men pulling, and using the boat's power, it got by all right. The remainder of the distance up the river was made very well, except that the boat would strike bottom now and then; they not to Warm Creek; had a little lunch, dropped down the river to a spring and cached the provisions they were taking up, so the topographic parties could pick them up in the small boats they were using. R. 1854- 1856. They didn't continue on up the river, but went back up to Lee's Ferry. It was too much of a struggle to go up stream. They had plenty of fuel, and he recalls Mr. La Rue saying that there was in the neighborhood of twenty- five to twenty- eight thousand second feet, passing Lee's Ferry at the time. He made a subsequent trip on the same boat, up the river five or six miles above Lee's Ferry, and had no trouble to speak of. R. 1855. 1856. This boat was at Lee's Ferry the last time he heard of it. After this second trip was taken, some of the party found a trail, leading up the mesa, just north of Lee's Ferry, that could be used as a pack trail for carrying supplies up parallel to the river. The largest amount of supplies used by the party which was working the lower part of the reservoir- sits was supplied by pack trains. R. 1856- 1857. He had three principal parties along the Colorado River at this time; one of which was in charge of Mr. Chenowith |