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Show Record obtained its supplies from Green River overland to Trachyte Creek and boated them from Trachyte Creek down the river to the Good Hope Bar, a distance of fifteen of eighteen miles. We had ordinary flat bottom boats, about sixteen feet long and four or five feet wide. In going upstream with these boats they would tow them, and when the wind was fairly good they would sail up the river. I have never gone from Good Hope to Hite by boat myself, but have been from Good Hope to Olympia Bar on the river in boats. In taking this fifteen miles journey from Good Hope to Olympia Bar we went on right along nicely. In going upstream it was not so easy. At first we had quite a heavy wind and set up our sail, putting a pole up and hanging a piece of carpet on it. 3126 That was all the sail we had and we went along very rapidly. One of the party said: " The wind is so strong, you boys not being any ways experienced, I believe I would wait until the wind went down." We went about three miles that way and then waited until the wind went down entirely, when it became just a question of towing. Between Good Hope and Olympia Bars I couldn't say there were any rapids, but there was some pretty swift water; there was not any real heavy fast water. There is a trail from Good Hope to Olympia. 3127 Mr. Stanton came in there in 1898 with a drilling machine to test the bed rock of the Colorado for gold. The only boats there during my time were skiffs. I know of no supplies being delivered up the river from Lees Ferry or down the river except as I have stated. 3128 While I was there machinery was brought in to Mr. Stanton. They built a flat bottom, large boat, upon which they carried their drilling machine and would drill across the bars and then drop the boat down and pick up the machine and go over the still water; but on the rapids they would use a cable and pull the machine across. The machinery they were drilling with was pretty heavy and they did not take too much change of rounding. I do not remember any ledge running clear across the river in the section of the river that I was on or any ledge that was any more pronounced than the |
