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Show 812 He made a second trip down the Green River, about ten days after the one just described. On this second trip they had a little better help. Besides himself and Mr. Howard there was Mr. McClane, Mr. McDonald, and Lute Johnson, Mr. McDonald was different man then from the one on the San Rafael expedition, R. 1922. On the second trip they carried more fuel, except wood, and went down the river to about the came place he went to on the first trip. It took them about three weeks to make the round trip, about evenly divided going down and coming back. On the second trip the river had begun to rise a little. R. 1923. " A. The river was quite a little higher, but it shifted the bare so the information we tried to have on the first trip didn't do us much good on the second; had to go through all the preliminaries of finding channel on the second the same as the first. " Q. How long did it take you to make that second trip? " A. I think about the same time as the first. " Q. And the same distance? " A. Made it the same exactly, the same distance. " Q. Coming up the river did you have about the name trouble as you did on the first trip? " A. Well, yes, about the same; we had quite serious trouble getting out of the Colorado. The Grand River had had come flood that had gone down just a little too far, and our boat wasn't strong enough to pull us out of there; the only way we could get out of there was by use of a block and |