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Show 1065 One trip was made up the river with the launch and the row boat, to what is know as Dandy Crossing, something over a hundred miles up the river. R. 2533- 2535. Albert Jones, surveyor, Arthur Waller, and a man named McDermott, accompanied him on this trip. Mr. Spencer did not go. As he remembers, it required thirteen days to go up the river and the trip was made in July or August. He has no record of it. R. 2535. " Q Was this straight traveling, or did your party stop on the way? " A Well, we had to line the boat a good many times, pull it with lines, and we were wrecked about three times, and we did some stopping to make mining locations, placer locations." R. 2535- 2536. The wreck was caused by the row boat turning over on two different occasions and the launch capsized one. The cause of the launch capsizing was by getting crossways of a rapid and it was carried down into a rock and turned over. Difficulty with sand bars was also encountered and at one time they had to get out and force the launch off the bar by hand. They started with about five hundred pounds of provisions but lost most of them the last time the row boat capsized. They were unable to obtain other supplies. In his best judgment, the supplies were lost about twelve miles above Warm Creek on the up trip. R. 2536. There were no difficulties in operating the boat down stream because of a rise in the water. He dose not recall the date upon which he arrived at Lees Ferry. Other trips were made up the river a distance of twelve or fifteen miles and some two or three miles [ from Lees Ferry] |