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1002 arrived at Lees Ferry the following noon. " Q. Did you have any difficulty in making that trip? " A. Just the regular sandbars, was all. We run on a rock in Trachyte rapid; we run on a rock in the rapid around the first turn below Shock rapid; there is a long island in there; that big rapid at the end of the island; we went through the middle channel; in going through there we hit a gravel reef, but nothing serious." R. 2371. At that time the steam boat C. H. Spencer was being constructed. He had not seen the boat since but saw its nose sticking up out of the sand at Lees Ferry in 1921. He returned to his ranch from Lees Ferry after the trip about the first of February, staying at Lees Ferry for sometime because of the river being gorged with ice. The trip was made in December, 1911, and they arrived at Lees Ferry just a few days before Christmas. Both men accompanied him back up the river, but they did not use a power boat. " Q. How did you get it up? " A. Same old day, drug it up with a rope." R. 2372. They left Lees Ferry about the 31st if January and arrived at Hite the seventeenth of eighteenth of February [ 1912]. He left the canyon in 1914 after walking from Red Canyon to Hite, then riding horseback to Hanksville from where he walked to Greenriver [ Utah]. He made the trip by himself. At Greenriver he met, by appointment, Mr. Russell, who accompanied him on the 1907 trip. The meeting was for the purpose of arranging another trip down the Colorado River. R. 2373- 2374. They later made the trip. " We got through the biggest portion of the cataracts when we had our mishap. R. 2374. |
