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Show Record the time I entered it below Bluff until I reached the Colorado 891 River and I saw no placer miners. After we reached the Colorado River, Bert Loper and I made a trip in the empty boat up the Colorado to Hole- In- The- Rock, while the rest of the party entered the boats and we returned to our camp at the mouth of the San Juan River. We then surveyed and mapped the Colorado below the mouth of the San Juan and continued 892 our trip as far down as Lees Ferry. Our survey ended at Oak Creek. On our trip from the mouth of the San Juan down to Oak Creek we had no great difficulties . We were not stuck seriously on sand bars. From Oak Creek we went to Lees Ferry. I believe that was a con- 893 tinuous trip with the exception of one night's camp, but on that trip at one place above Lees Ferry, through poor judgment, I ran into a mud bar. We had a pretty good head of water most of the distance from the mouth of the San Juan to Lees Ferry. We started from Bluff on the 18th or 19th of July, 1921, and arrived at Lees Ferry on the 9th of December, 1921. I recall we had 6 distinct floods during the latter part of July and the first, day of August. All these made boating diffi- 894 cult. Our party was resupplied with food by pack train at Clay 895 Hill Crossing. Then at the mouth of the San Juan and then provisions were brought to us by motor boat from Lees Ferry to the mouth of Aztec Creek. 897 The first time I was on the Green River on any trip of any extent was in 1909, when I made a trip from Green River to Moab by gasoline launch. I was next on the Green River in 1922, with the Trimble party. I joined that party at Green River, Wyoming. The operations of that party were mapping the canyon for the government from the Utah- Wyoming line to the irrigation dam about 9 miles above 898 Greenriver, Utah. The boats we had were 18 foot Galloway type, 5 foot beam, covered decks, cock- pit in the center, flat bottom, non- keel, with raised hatch above the sloping deck and air tight compartments. |