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Show Record San Juan. The others are riffles, not rapids. the arrived at 853 Lees Ferry Saturday, October 8th, 1921. 854 Between Greenriver and Lees Ferry we saw a survey party working at the mouth of the Escalanto end when we were at Hall's Crossing another party came in with a canoe. He had been using a flat bottom boat with a motor coming up, but abandoned the motor and used the cars. The oarsman was more familiar with canoes than 855 he was boats and consequently went out for a canoe. Mr. Hough's party used a flat bottom boat. That was the government survey party. Then 7/ 1/ 2 miles above Lees Ferry there was a Mr. Joekel who had row boats. From the mouth of the San Rafael until we got to Lees Ferry the one party of settlers at John Hite's ranch were the only 856 ones we met. I have been on that section of the Colorado River that was formerlly called the Grand River. I made a trip with Bert Loper from Glenwood Spring to Grand Junction in a Peterboro freight canoe. We continued down the river through Westwater canyon , and we were the only party that has over run the rapids of that canyon, I be- 857 lieve. Westwater canyon is in Utah. This trip was made in 1916. I previously made a trip in this same canoe down the river, with another assistant, but we had the boat hauled around Westwater Can-yon and put it in again at Cisco pumping plant and then continued 858 down to Moab. 859 On this first trip down the Grand River we came down to 860 Moab. We left Delta, Colorado, on August 18, 1916. Our boat was a Peterboro freight canoe. It is stronger boat than the ordinary pleasure canoe. It is strongly reinforced with ribs that are an inch and a half wide and only a half inch apart. It was 18 feet long 3/ 1/ 2 foot beam, weighed 200 pounds. Our load was not over 861 300 pounds, excluding the men. It would draw 4/ 1/ 2 inches of water. It was very speedy when loaded. From Cisco down to Moab, there are numerous ranches and - 122- |