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Show 923 slept all night, by gracious, on a bar, laid right on sand bar, no blankets, nothing, all night long. " Just as the sun was getting up Mr. Stanton and them come along, then we piled in, and Mr. Brown had them make landing, and we ate a little breakfast; hadn't had anything from the day before, when we started. We thought we would there. That is the reason we had slept out on the bar all night. " Q Why couldn't you get back up the river? " A It was too swift; we couldn't pull up along the edges, because there was no shore line there." R. 2182. That is below the Escalante, between the Escalante and the San Juan. From the San Juan down to Lees Ferry little trouble was had except at the Crossing of the Fathers, where some bars and rocks were encountered and twice below opposite Navajo Creek the boats were stuck on sand bars. After leaving Navajo Creek the party moved on down to the old John D. Lee house above the mouth of Paris and camped. They endeavored to buy supplies from Warren Johnson but were unable to obtain any. Supplies were finally brought in by Mr. Brown from Kanab, Utah, and were brought in overland, with Johnson's team, up by the way of Houserock, up over the mountain and through to Kanab and back again. It took him ten days to make the trip. R. 2184 He had no part in the railroad survey except having charge of the boats. While Brown was gone to kanab for supplies he stayed at Lees Ferry. At that time there was at Lees Ferry only the Johnson family and Al Huntington. |
