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Show Record 2185 horseback from Kanab. Our party lost no boats between Cataract Canyon and Lee's Ferry. From Lee's Ferry our party consisted of eight men with three boats and we went on down to North Canyon, which by the river is about forty- five or fifty miles from 2186 where Bright Angel empties into the river. There we left the 2187 river and walked to Kanab. This journey took about three days. Then we went on to Milford, Utah, which was the nearest railroad 2189 point. After I returned to Denver I saw officers of the company with which Messrs. Brown and Stanton were connected; and, pursuant to their request, drew a plan of a boat that I thought would run the river and superintended the construction of such 2190 boats were taken via Hanksville to Glen Canyon. They had one hundred and forty- four feet of air tight compartments under the running board and there were twelve heavy galvanized iron cans. 2191 These boats were longer and had a broader beam than the other boats and with two thousand or three thousand pounds on them I think would float nine or ten inches high. Our trip from Crescent Creek to Lee's Ferry was a good deal like the former trip; we got quite a few bars and rocks and at Bull Frog Rapid had to lighten the boar up. When we came to the place where the ledge runs across the river we ran on to it before we thought 2192 about it. Everybody had to get out and we had to back up and didn't find the channel where we had found it before, but we did find a channel through and got our boats through. We couldn't pick these boats up and carry them like we could those used on 2193 the former trip. We had more trouble with bars on the second trip. At Lee's Ferry we obtained supplies and went on down the river to the gulf of California. On this I think the Chaffin 2194 boys were mining down below Hite. I next saw Glen Canyon in 1891, when I went with the Best expedition. We used the same kind of boats as those used by us the second Stanton expedition. The Best party started right at the bridge at Green River, Utah 283 |
