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Show Record material and the supplies for men and teams. The river was very low at that time and there was shallow, bad water there, so that we had a little trouble with our small boats in getting over. I waited until the river raised to move my camp outfit and supplies above referred to and made some boats and rafts to carry the outfit. When the water in the river rose I took everything down the river without any trouble, except once when, due to carelessness, I got on the rocks with the raft. I got the raft off and didn't lose anything at that place. In going over Bull Frog Rapid the wind was blowing hard; I had two twenty- four foot boats and one of them was loaded with iron. Going over that rapid the boat loaded with iron broke one of my other boats in two. I had seven boats beside the raft and was riding in the boat that broke, whereupon we climbed into another boat, which sunk. We got the other boat out and also saved some of its cargo. " Other than that, it was the only trouble I had, and I consider that my own carelessness." 3283 While we were working Shock Bar I needed some more supplies, some of which were perishable. It was in May, and because of the swift water I couldn't get a small boat up over the Shock Rapid and could not catch a day when the wind was blowing, so I hired a pack train and went over to Hall's Crossing and there built a raft and then went to where my supplies had been unloaded and took what I could carry on the boat. There were also sixty odd sacks of oats, and I built a big raft and put the oats on it. It was arranged that at four o'clock the raft would be cut loose up the river and I took our burros and went down the river ten or fifteen miles to a point where we were planning on catching the raft as it came down. When it arrived there were only sixteen sacks of oats on 3284 the raft, which I unloaded. I brought the horses down overland by the Lake Canyon trail and swam them across the river. In the fall, when I went down the stream with a raft loaded quite heavily, the water was very low, and at Lake Canyon I had quite a time getting my raft over that place; had to pry the raft over with |