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Show Record was with two others in the boat I referred to as having been caught in an ice gorge. Colonel Hite with Bert Seaboldt then had 3227 charge of all of the work at Good Hope. Colonel Hite and his companions were coming from Hite and after they got our of the ice jam they walked on down to Good Hope. I rode my horse down and sent a team back after them that night, and when the ice jam broke, they took the boat on down the river. That night we pulled it up and unloaded it so that it would be out of the way of any floods that might follow the ice jam and we tied it to some willows. The boat wasn't harmed in any way. 3228 During my twenty- three years of experience there on the Colorado River, I made a great many short trips and long trips, and during most of those years made a great many trips up and down the river for greater or less distances. During that time I didn't see very many people, and I think I have been there for a year without seeing any one pass our place. There was not a 3229 great deal of traffic on the river. I was on the river frequently myself. During the years I spent there were a great many times when I have tried to go up the river and did not get there, going only as far as I could. Often in going up to Hite, either because of reverse winds or low or extremely high water, or some- 3230 thing of that kind, we would leave our boat and walk up. There have been times when I have carried something five miles across the trail where it would have been nearer and much easier in a boat; I have made several such trips. I have done this because with the boat I had and my equipment I couldn't have gone where I wanted to on the river at the stage of water then existing. One particular trip of this character that I recall was during extreme high water, when I and three companions worked for nearly two days trying to get by a certain point. We were going to Hite, and except for that one point I suppose we could have made it on 3231 up. On that occasion we had to climb over the rocks, go on the higher bench and come back down in. I recall no other instance |