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Show Record 1902 placer but didn't follow them up. I do not think there was then a post office at Hite, but mail would be brought in there. There was a post office at Lee's Ferry, where we got mail, and we also got some supplies at Lee's Ferry. The next time I saw Glen Canyon was in 1891, when with a party of eight I came down the river from Green River, Utah, to Glen Canyon, J. D. Best was in charge of the party; Harry McDonald was head boatman. Elmer 1903 Kane and L. H. Jewell were also boatmen. John Hyslop, who had been with us on the second Stanton expedition was also a member of the party. The company by which I was then employed was known as the Grand Canyon Mining company and our purpose was to find a lost mine, supposed to be located in the lower part of the canyon. 1904 We intended to go clear through the Grand Canyon the same as Mr. Stanton had done; he went clear to the gulf of California. I also went through with the Best party. After we left Lee's Ferry no lines were run. It was simply a recognizance, and photographs were taken to show the characteristics of the canyon. The Best expedition left Green River, Utah, about July 14 or maybe July 10. 1905 This party had two boats, practically the same as those used on the Stanton expedition. They were 26 feet long, 41/ 2 foot beam, 32 inches deep, with air tight compartments and water tight hatches. At that stage of water it was quite rough at what is called Devil's Auger and there are riffles from there down to the mouth 1906 of the San Rafael. We encountered no difficulties except that we grounded and at Devil's Auger shipped a lot of water. Between there and the San Rafael we jammed one boat a little on a rock. On the stretch of river down to the mouth of the San Rafael We grounded some but it was not very bad that time. After we reached Wheeler's ranch we decided that we had too many supplies to take all of them by boat through Cataract Canyon and made arrangements with Wheeler brothers to take a lot of them by 1907 wagon to Dandy Crossing, which they did, In going through labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons our boats not ground as frequently |