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Show 846 at that times, and an Irishman, who was the mayor of Omaha, both of whom had come in to meet Mr. Stanton. R. 1994- 1996. These men were at Hite when the party arrived there; they didn't have a boat, and had come in horseback, or in a wagon. R. 1995. " Q. Between Hite and Lee's Ferry did you encounter any rapids rough water, that you recall? " A. Quite a number; there were names for a good many of them on the upper side of Glen canyon, along this mining country where there were miners off and on, they had named them; we didn't know the names of them -- some we didn't know at all, but we knew certain ones, Tickaboo rapid, Trachyte rapid, and one other one below that, in the mining district. " Q. This Tickaboo rapid, is it at the mouth of some creek or wash? " A. Yes, all those rapids are at the mouth of side washes that carry out rocks into the river in stores and high water and floods and cloudbursts, all of them. " Q. Did you encounter any high water in your trip from Crescent creek down to Lee's Ferry? " A. No, except the river was either coming up or falling all the time; every day it would be different. " Very little time in the summer times that it is not changing and rising and falling." R. 1995- 1996. He later saw the effect of the high water om the Cass Hite flume, another next year when he came down it wasn't running for the ditch had been filled with sand and gravel, and only part of the flume was still there. R. 1996- 1997. He believes the expedition arrived at Lee's Ferry on |