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Show Record of determining the extent and capacity of a proposed dam about five miles above Lee's Ferry in Glen Canyon. We contemplated that the dam night be eight hundred feet high and collected data having in mind a eight hundred foot dam. This work was done in cooperation with the southern California Edison Electric Company of California. I had many parties throughout the West and tried to visit all of them during the field season. My recollection is that I first entered the Colorado River country in July, 1849 1921. I went to Lee's Ferry and thence upstream in an Edison company boat to the mouth of Warm Creek, located just inside the State of Utah, and went thence on horseback over the mesa. This boat was a flat bottom scow, pointed at the bow with square sides. It was propelled by a marine engine, tied up to a shaft, which propelled the scow. As I recall it was a forty horsepower 1850 engine. The boat was designed to carry supplies from Lee's Ferry to the rapids below the mouth of the San Juan River, and we had hoped that we could thus carry a considerable amount of supplies. On the day I took my river trip we had maybe about one thousand pounds of supplies, which, with the seven or eight men on the boat, made a load of about twenty- five hundred pounds. The boat was twenty- seven feet long, with about a seven foot beam. Its 1851 draft would depend on the load. This boat was brought to Lee's Ferry, where we unloaded it, placed it on a large truck and took it to what they locally call the Dugway, just below the Paria Rapids, which are located three miles below Lee's Ferry. We 1852 wished to see what the boat would do. Just below Paris Rapids help tow the boat through the greater part of the rapids, perhaps 241 1358 |