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Show Record the dirt and catching the gold. We used quicksilver. while I was in there I experimented with my boat in the cataracts and we prospected up and along the canyon to the foot of the rapids. 2169 On one occasion I ran one of the rapids at the foot of Cataract 2170 Canyon. On that visit to Glen Canyon I saw no other boats going up or down the river. Hite had and outfit two or three miles or 2171 more below. I went out via Hanksville to Green River, Utah, which was then called Blake. There I met Messrs. Brown and Stanton and decided to go with them on their trip. They had six boats, 2172 fourteen or fifteen feet long, with air tight compartments stem and stern, and with a draft of seven or eight inches. There were 2173 sixteen men in the party and I had charge of the boats. From Green River, Utah, down to the junction of the rivers we ran along feeling out the channel, which is arbitrary through there and different from most any other river. Every once in a while we grounded and would have to get out and drag the boat along to find our channel. This would occur four or five times a day, but sometimes not so often, depending on the stretch of the river. Down to the mouth of the San Rafael it was pretty bad in places; there were so many bars, and we had to cross the river hunting a channel and would get aground and would get out and wade. If we got out and got them lined, we could easily get the boats off 2174 those places. We had no life preservers on that trip. Going 2175 through Cataract Canyon we lined our boats, but even them they were too heavily loaded, we lined our boats, but even then they were too heavily loaded, and we threw away blankets, and two men 2176 threw away overcoats to lighten the load. Through Cataract Canyon we lost three boats. We did not run any of the rapids in Cataract Canyon with those boats. We towed some rafts loaded with food behind us, beginning this towing at Green river. We lost this food in Cataract Canyon in trying to let the rafts run with the boats when we were lining through the rapids. These boats would 2177 not stand the force of the water. Sometimes we would skid the |