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Show Record three separate homes or cabins within a few miles of each other. Between Greenriver and Lees Ferry we saw Bert Loper working 800 with a boat. He had a placer dredge there and a few head of stock, At Warm creek we noticed some 20 men engaged in building a flat bot-tom steam boat. 803 When I speak of bad rapids I mean rapids where one is likely to strike a rock and smash his boat completely in two; while man is likely to be thrown out and not have any chance at all of saving his life. The rapids in Glen Canyon did not impress me as being those 804 kind of rapids. There are four rapids that stand out in my memory in Grand Canyon as being what we would call master rapids. One is called Bullfrog rapid, another is called Bedrock rapid, close to Hall's creek, then the water pocket fold close to Hall's creek and a rapid below Bridge Canyon. From the last rapid into Lees Ferry we would run onto sand bars which would check our speech. We had extra oars on the deck of the boats and would use them as poles and push back up stream. After we got into Lees Ferry we continued on down the river. As to the dates you asked me about yesterday will say that we left Green River City, Wyoming, on September 8, 1911, Friday. We arrived at Greenriver, Utah, October 16. We stopped 2 days at Lodore and 4 days at Vernal and Jensen. We left Green River, Utah, October 19, 1911. We reached the mouth of the Greenriver on Thurs-day, October 26. We got there about noon the day before. We left the Junction October 26. We left Lees Ferry November 7, 1911. We arrived Lees Ferry November 6. I do not think it would be possible to take a boat up 812 stream against those rapids I have mentioned in Glen Canyon. I made a second trip down the Green River, starting from Greenriver, Utah, on September 11, 1921, for the United States Geological Survey and the Edison Electric people combined in 813 making survey of the bed of the river to locate possible dam sites. |