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Show Record The raft we used from Grand Junction to Moab was made of four logs. This raft trip was made in the summer of 1888 and we intended to go on down and see the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 1985 They were then doing some placer mining on the Grand River in the Blue Mountain region above Moab, and I expected to stop there and do some prospecting. When we arrived there we found two or three men placer mining with rockers, but it was not paying and instead of going out to the Colorado we kept right on, thinking we would go down at least as far as Moab and there get a boat and go on down the Grand Canyon. We came right on through from Grand Junction to Moab on our raft but couldn't get a boat at 1986 Moab. We couldn't get any further without a boat, so we left 1987 the river and went to Salt Lake. The placer miners whom we saw on the river above Moab had a flat bottom skiff which they used when they went down from Grand Junction. We also saw small boats used by people who lived on the river to cross back and forth. 1988 In 1889 I heard about the Brown- Stanton expedition and went to Denver to try to join that party. Mr. Brown who had conceived the idea had been drowned and Mr. Stanton was going on another river trip. The fact that I had been down the Grand River with 1989 a raft was one thing that induced him to employ me. I agree 1990 with Mr. Edwards' testimony as to the kind of boats we used. We took our boats overland to Crescent Wash and we left Crescent 1991 Creek on the 6th or 10th December. Before departing on our journey we did some practising in rowing, the river being rather 1992 quiet along the banks at that place. We used two pairs of nine or ten foot oars in each boat. Our boats were overloaded and we had to pull hard. No rough water bothered them but with their loads and the men in they would sink down level with the water and were hard to handle; but we always knew that we had a boat 1993 under us if we didn't get washed out ourselves. One man was thrown out of a boat, however, down in the Grand Canyon below Lee's Ferry. Between Crescent Creek and Hite there were a great |