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Show Record when on the river and wore them through Glen Canyon as well as through Cataract Canyon. When I was Glen Canyon during the second Stanton expedition, there were several prospectors in there beside Cass Hite and his brother, and I suppose we saw twenty men at Hite and on the bars below. We could hear them and 2023 see their camps. While on the Green River we did not meet any other boats or people. Elmer Kane testified on cross examination as follows; On the expeditions of 1889 our boats drew about fourteen inches of water when carrying their load. Wherever I have referred to the Grand Canyon in my testimony I have had in mind the Grand Canyon in Arizona below Lee's Ferry. The boats used by us on the 1891 expedition with Mr. Best were substantially as those used on my earlier expedition. Mr. Hyslop made the round trip from Rapid No. 13 in Cataract Canyon to Hite and back in less than 2027 a week's time. I did not accompany him and have no personal 2028 knowledge as to how he traveled. At the place where we encountered the reefs which I mentioned there was no instability or shifting 2030 of that rock formation. There were places where those reefs had been broken down, but we had to push our boats through such 2032 places. If we had had occasion to go up and down the river 2033 frequently after learning of the existence of those breaks in the 2033 reefs, we would nevertheless have had trouble; we would have had to hunt for a break in the reef and would have been complied to wade out the same way I did to find out how to go through. Elmer Kane testified on redirect examination as follows: 2033- 2034 When we traveled from Cisco to Moab on the raft referred to by me, each man had long oars and poled the raft where the water was deep enough and pulled it off the rocks in many places. The raft was probably fourteen feet long by five feet wide and was built of dry pine logs. It had been where we found it on the bank for a long time. |