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Show Record " are simply to fill in the background for the more exciting motion pictures" upon which I depended to give my action, pictures. 71 It is probably 90 miles from the Utah- Arizona line to Lee's Ferry. The character of the water in and about the state line is the same on both sides. " We considered Glen Canyon, the entire length of Glen Canyon, as easy going." In that stretch we encountered nothing but Gand bars and quicksand along the shore and sometimes bad damping places because of the difficulty of getting through the willows and scrub oak. I call Glen canyon the entire stretch of 72 of river ( 186 miles) between the Fremont River and Lee's Ferry. Along that entire stretch " We encountered no difficulties, beyond occasional send bars, some quicksands along the shore, and the difficulty of getting to the shore many times, owing to the willows, scrub oak, etc." In that part of the canyon we encountered a sand storm which was " simply a discomiort, without being a great danger." Exhibit No. 48 is a typical view of Glen Canyon at a point where 73 the walls are relatively low. Exhibit No. 49 shows a typical wall through Glen Canyon, where the walls ( principally sandstone) rise from 150 to 300 or 400 feet above the level of the water. All 74 three of our boats drew from 14 to 16 inches of water. Between the mouth of the Green River and Lee's Ferry we encountered no other boats and saw only one man, towit, one William Carpenter, a minor and trapper, who lived there alone. He brought his supplies in on horseback to his place of abode, located probably five miles below the mouth of the Fremont River. we were sixteen days making the trip from the town of Green River to Lee's Ferry. At Hite we found an old building that appeared to have been the post office but saw no one, and none of the little shacks around there was inhabited. 75 At Lee's Ferry there was a ferry man and his family in one house and he had two brothers who lived in nearby houses, but there was no town or store or even a post office. We saw a ferry boat at that point and two or three small boats used to cross the river. - 11- |