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Show 790 He believes the draft of the boat he went up the river in was about eighteen inches when loaded, had a screw propeller, which was in a barrel [ tunnel] and probably was flush with the bottom of the boat, which he examined before it was launched. R. 1882. He had only one party working up the river from Lees Ferry [ the others were working down from the Green and San Juan]. The place where he left the supplies was not in an appointed cache, but they were forced to cache the supplies, as they knew the topographers would pick them up easily. They would notice the spring and notice the cache. R. 1883. When he was at Lees Ferry Chenoewith's Party was leaving Greenriver, Trimble had started at Bluff, Utah, was coming down the San Juan River, and he knew their general locality. He had an agreement to cache supplies near the mouth of the San Juan River if possible. R. 1883- 1884. The point at which they turned around to go back to Lees Ferry was at the mouth of Warm Creek. They had pretty good water in the river at this point. The boat was working successfully. They were going up stream, but were tugging a lot on the line. The conditions had been as favorable below this point as at the mouth of Warm Creek. R. 1885. They left Lees Ferry at eight or nine o'clock in the morning in the mouth of July, and camped the first night about twelve miles above. They tried to get through a riffle, opposite mile twelve, and didn't make it, |