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Show Record was about to sink the barge. We cut the two front anchor lines with an ax and snapped our first shore line and the second shore line held long enough to enable us to swing the barge over to shore - otherwise it would have been carried into the rapids of 2108 Cataract Canyon. In response to a telegram received from Mr. 2109 Richardson, I took the outfit cut. Our drill outfit started up-stream I think about October 25. When I decided to take the outfit our, I drove overland from Moab to Green River and there 2110 bought an old paddle wheel. I had gone up the river from the junction to Moab in a motor boat. I gathered up the paddle wheel and fittings rods, gears, chains, etc. that I thought would be necessary to fit up the Betsy Ann, and Mr. Wimmer took it down the river to the junction. We mounted the horizontal boiler, connected it with the drill engine, and with the paddle wheel made a 2111 steamboat out of the Betsy Ann. The stuff with which we fitted up the Betsy Ann was brought down in the Marguerite. I accompanied Mr. Wimmer on this down trip and we unloaded coal at three diff-erent place along the bank for use coming back up, having about six hundred pounds of coal left when we reached the junction. We loaded this six hundred pounds of coal on the Betsy Ann after the Betsy Ann had been made into a steamboat, and that boat propelled itself up the river. In bringing the drill outfit back up the river the Marguerite pushed one of our small scows and the two motor boats pushed the other one. We loaded all we could of our outfit and cached the rest at the junction. Because the Betsy Ann was a sort of homemade steamboat and because of the difficul-ties we had encountered along the river, we took things very slowly and cautiously going upstream; we had some difficulty in getting around a sharp bend where the river was thrown against the cliffs at a point about two miles above the junction and were held up there for ten or fifteen minutes when we could not see if 2113 we were moving or not but finally made it past that point. We also so had our daily round of grounding on sand bars and picking the |