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1064 " Q What stage was the water? " A Well, it was about a medium stage, I would imagine; I have seen it both lower and higher." R. 2531- 2532. He was on the Colorado River in 1910, at Lees Ferry, having gone down there from Bluff on horseback. R. 2532. " Q Just tell me what route you took? " A Well, had some few wagons and some small machinery, and we went down and crossed the San Juan river at Comb wash and through the Navajo Indian reservation, know as the Monumental valley, and through Marsh Pass, and Red Lake Indian trading post, from there to Tuba City and Moenkopi and down the regular road to Lees Ferry. " I was horseback, myself. " Q Were there several in your party? " A Yes sir." R. 2532- 2533. The road taken intersects with the regular road from Flagstaff to Lees Ferry at a point near Moenkopi. The purpose of making this trip was to handle machinery and boats for the Chicago Exploration Company. When he arrived at Lees Ferry there was an eighteen foot keel bottom, gasoline launch on the bank which hadn't been put into the water yet, and the superintendent was Charles H. Spencer. R. 2533. It was a second- hand boat about eighteen feet long, four and one- half foot beam, and had about an eighteen inch draft. This was in the year 1910. Besides this launch, there was a ferry boat, some row boats at the Johnson ranch, and a row boat that he helped build. He operated the launch on the river in mid- summer just after the flood waters, making a lot of short trips to try the boat out first, then going up a distance of three or four miles. |
