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Show Record Lockhart Canyon, located forty miles below Moab, in connection with our survey work. In May, 1926, I made the trip in a small twenty- foot launch owned by the Moab Garage Company. It was a black boat and Clarence Baldwin and one of my surveyors, Charles F. Moore, made the river trip to Lockhart with me. I would estimate that we were about two and a half or three hours going down. We had no serious difficulty with sand bars but struck two of them. By allowing the boat to drift around and by poling we pushed off. We also encountered some whirlpools that weren't very dangerous. After reaching Lockhart we turned 2676 around and started back up. The upstream trip was of course much slower; we had to keep close to the shore to take advantage of slower currents, and went up to No. 2 Well and then on up to No. 1 Well and stayed there all night, traveling that day a distance of twenty- two miles upstream. I don't recall any difficulty coming upstream; we may have struck several sand bars, but I do not remember. Next day we went on up to Moab and on that part of the trip our propeller struck a snag or rock and was broken, so that we had to beach the boat and repair the propeller at a point just 2677 above the mouth of Mill Creek. There we repaired the damage and continued on up, arriving at Moab at approximately noon. On our upstream trip we took a different course than that followed on our upstream trip; we would also find the best water going down at one place and coming up in another, and had considerable trouble locating " just the best water". I think this was because the channel was changing; I mean the course of the rapid water was changing; this was probably due to change in the bed of the river in some way. I don't there there had been any change in the stage of water and the change, if any, was very little because the 2678 river was very high when we went down. I was again on the Colorado River in 1926, going from Moab to No. 1 Well, about eighteen miles in this name boat. Then I went down to No. 2 Well, eight miles farther, in a sixteen foot row boat with an outboard motor. |
