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Show Record we would call a small rapid, but I don't remember encountering 1914 any sand bars or crossing bars in that section. When we were traveling from Hite to Lee's Ferry, the river had fallen consid-erably, it being in the month of August. We stopped at a great many of the bars and staked out more, the same as we did the year before. We had more or less trouble with both boats on the bars and would get off in the usual manner. This condition continued until we reached a point about twenty miles above Lee's Ferry. From Lee's Ferry two members of the party and I returned to Denver 1915 and we did not see any more of the rest of the party. On both my trips to Lee's Ferry Thomas Johnson had a nice little farm there and raised lots of fruit. I can't say whether I noticed any dif-ference in the channel of the river through Glen Canyon between my first and second trips, or as to whether or not sand bars were 1916 located in the same place on each trip. I think it was about two hundred and fifty miles from Lee's Ferry to the railroad. My next trip down the Colorado was in the spring of 1893. I was in charge of the party and we thought there were a lot of tourists who would like to see the Colorado River from the upper end and we figured that we could possible operate a boat from Green River down to the junction of the two rivers and take tourists down there, so we or-ganized a Denver company. We leased a steam launch that had been abandoned at Wheeler's ranch and made an attempt to see what we 1917 could do with the river. This boat had been abandoned in 1891 and was known as the Major Powell. It was about thirty- five feet long and had a beam of eight feet and I judge a draft of about eighteen inches. It has been lying there for more than a year and I got a small boat at Green River and came down to Wheeler's ranch in the latter part of February or first of March. I came by water and part by ice, the river being still frozen up there at that time. 1918 I dragged my boat over the ice and examined the Major Powell and returned to Denver. With two companions I came back to Wheeler's ranch and we repaired the Major Powell and got her into the water |