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Show 913 The last time he saw the Green or Colorado River was when he went on a prospecting trip in southern Utah. The trip was started on the Grand River at Grand Junction, Colorado. He and an associate constructed a boat in Cramer's wagon yard at Grand Junction and hauled it on a rack down to the river in March, 1887. The river was frozen over and the boat was run through the ice for some distance when it was pulled on top and skidded over the ice like a sled. On this trip they went down through the first Granite Canyon to what is now known as Bar X Bottom, stopped and built a cabin, put in a small dam, a sluice box, and commenced mining. R. 2161. The place where he stopped and built his cabin was about a mile from the Utah- Colorado line. That was in 1887. He stayed there seven or eight months and then went up into the Book Mountains. From there he went down into Glen Canyon with burros. R. 2162. From Glen Canyon they went to a point on the Green River about midway between the San Rafael and the city of Greenriver, Utah, on horseback, having a pack outfit consisting of seven head of horses and burros, camp outfit, and mining equipment. they then forded the Green River a short distance below and went over on to the Colorado down below Cataract Canyon. R. 2162- 2163. From the point where he crossed the Green River he got down below Cataract Canyon by crossing the top of the mesa to the north of it; " you can ride across that anywhere in towards Hanksville, between there and the mouth of the Dirty Devil on the river, but you can't go down the river along Cataract Canyon that way all the way." R. 2163 |
