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Show Record we would row and tow and pole, and on one occasion when we brought supplies down in the first part of May, while the river was rising, it was pretty hard rowing. We had a larger boat then than we had had before. We had no difficulty in coming downstream. After the high water goes down it leaves a channel, if you 3278 find it. The channel will remain until a flood comes in from some side canyon and starts the silt moving, so that you can't always go back the same way you went. After such a flood from a side canyon, you have to hunt around and find a place to go through; for that reason sometimes we get on the bars. When a change of this character is occasioned, the change may take place overnight; sometimes the channel will remain where it was for a month. For a time in 1895 I operated on the New Year Bar, located about seven miles below Hanson Creek. I think we operated there between February 3279 and May 1, and then moved up to the Moquie Bar, located just below Hanson Creek. When we were working at the New Year Bar we brought our supplies to Hanson Creek and thence down to New Year Bar in boats. While at Moquie Bar we brought our supplies from the mouth of Hanson Creek in a boat. I left the river in June, 3280 1895, and returned in September of that year to the Moquie Bar, which we worked quite a bit that winter. As a rule we left the river in December and came back in February. In 1896 or at the beginning of 1897 I bought the Shock Bar, which we called the Independence Bar, located about ten miles below Hall's Crossing. The first time we worked that bar we had our supplied brought overland to the mouth of Hanson Creek and took them from there down to our 3281 camp by boat on the river. Later while we were working that bar, our supplies came to Hall's Crossing, and we took them from Hall's Crossing down the river to our camp by boat. We sailed when we could, and when the wind was in the right direction sailing was 3282 all right. When we moved our camp down to the Shock Bar I had ten men working for me; also three or four teams, scrapers and similar 450 |
