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Show Record for grazing headquarters. I am now speaking of the county on the west side of the river. We tried to get to the river with the motor- boat and went along the north bank of the San Rafael for 182 possibly a quarter of a mile before we got stuck in the sand. We then knew it was impossible to launch the large motor- boat in the river at any point. We then decided to use the canvas covered 15 1/ 2 foot canoe that had been brought with the large motor boat. The canoe had a four foot beam and was equipped with oars. I had 183 never before used oars on a canoe. We put the canoe in the San Rafael river with our supplies and five men tried to drag it down the San Rafael. At places there would be plenty of water and at other places only half an inch. Because of the depth of water in the San Rafael we finally, after dragging the canoe loaded and partly loaded for a time, took all the supplies out and dragged it down the San Rafael to its mouth. We there loaded about one- third of the supplies in the canoe and the remainder in our row boat and arranged with Virgil Baldwin to meet us at the junction the following week with an outboard motor, gasoline and extra supplies. I traveled in the canoe and Mr. Blake, the boatman, handled the larger boat, which had more draft then the canoe, the 184 canoe's draft being may be three or four inches. Below the mouth of the San Rafael there is a uniform slope of between one and two feet to the mile; " there are no riffles, no rapids and no breaks in the general surface of the water." The river enters the canyon about two miles below the mouth of the San Rafael and from that point to the mouth of the Green River flows continuously through the two canyons named by Major Powell. The channel meanders between rock walls, with alternating sand bars on each side of the river, with crossing bars, and generally between all of the straight stretches there are crossing bars. We surveyed four of the larger typical side bars and took photographs and soundings. " With our small boats, there was no great trouble on the bars be-cause every time we got on a bar we would push off." We encountered |
