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Show 1001 stage, every different stage of the river, you might say every few inches, makes a different condition. At Red canyon I have had the whole channel right in front of my cabin; didn't belong there; belonged on the other side; but I have had it there. And maybe before the night was over it would be back where it belonged. I have seen that. " Q. Does that come with some change in the volume of the water? " A. Certainly; different stages of the water makes a different river." R. 2367- 2369. During the time he was at Red Canyon he received his supplies from Hite, to which place they were brought by freight team. He has observed sand waves on the Colorado River after or during summer floods. At Hite there were good sized sand waves, " but they are quite rare up there to what they are down below the San Juan." R. 2369- 2370. In December, 1911 he made a trip from Hite to Lees Ferry with a man named [ Bert] Seaboldt and a George Meiss. He used an eighteen foot boat, fifty- two inch beam, flared sides and flat bottom, which drew about six inches of water. The object of that trip to Lees Ferry was for Mr. Seaboldt to obtain information and data on the way regarding placer mining. R. 2370- 2371 The boat used was not equipped with a motor. [ R. 2372]. The first night they spent at Tickaboo with Cass Hite; the next night with Frank Bennett on the Olympia Bar; the next night they rested at Shock's upper cabin just below Lake Canyon: the following night was spent about a mile above Warm Creek which is about twenty- eight miles above Lees Ferry. They |
