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Show 807 at the time. From Narrow Canyon down to the place where he picked up the boat, it was characteristic of the river to be swift in places, with riffles, what he would call a small rapid, He doesn't remember encountering any sand- bars or crossing bars that far up in the river, R. 1913. It was not possible, because of the shape of the boat, to go stern foremost through the rapids, for the reason that what they call a round bottomed keel boat, as long as it is going fast, can be sterred, but as quick as it stops, control is lost. R. 1913. From Rite, Utah, the river had fallen, as it was then about the first of August. They stopped on a great many bars and staked out more [ placer] claims, as they did the year before, and both boats would run on the gravel beds and bars, and get hung up. If they couldn't push them through they would dig them through. This continued on down the river until they got about twenty miles above Lees Ferry. After they reached Lees Ferry he and two other men returned to Denver. Messrs. McDonald, Kane, Hyslop and Best got pack outfit, went down on the Buck-skin Mountains, down into the canyon to look for the lost mine, and he didn't see them any more. R. 1913- 1914. He took a wagon and went from Lees Ferry to Johnson, [ Utah], then on to the Rio Grande Western Railroad, then to Salt Lake, and back to Denver. The town of Johnson, Utah, is located about eight or ten miles east of Kanab, Utah. He didn't go to Kanab on that trip. On both his trips to Lees |