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Show Record They commenced to unload its cargo, but the boat sank before they could unload it and it pulled the other boat down, so that both boats went under the ice and were lost and we lost most of our equipment. We threw out and saved part of our cargo and took it 3295 to the Moqui Bar. On our downstream trip we had trouble with sand bars. We loaded these same boats and took them down clear through to Klondyke Bar, but we didn't salvage our scrapers and other machinery but had to get more and took them down on the boats with our other cargo. 3298 While we were operating on the Klondyke Bar our supplies 3299 came by way of Escalante down to the river at Navajo Valley, right 3300 by Klondyke Bar. I think it was in 1899 that we worked at the Stanton dredge. Our supplies came overland to the river to a point about a mile and a half above Bull Frog Rapid. They had a barge with which they used to handle their drill machinery up and down the river and used to barge to move freight up the river about a mile and a half. They had a cable or wire fastened up there and a windlass on the barge and it traveled along the line 3301 of this cable and would move the barge by winding up the windlass, 3302 which was operated by two men. I never operated a sail on the barge but I have seen sails on it, and when the breeze was right have seen it sail upstream. I never operated the barge and paid no attention to it, but I suppose they would take the cable out of their way when they were sailing. I have also seen them try to pull the barge up with a gasoline launch they had there but were 3303 unable to do so. I don't know what the horsepower of the engine in that barge was but I think it is the same launch they brought up from Lee's Ferry. Between 1899 and 1908 I placer mined in that section. If I want to move my stuff downstream I took everything up and moved it downstream. If I wanted to move my camp upstream, I took what I had to have and left the rest because it always required a lot of energy to take the outfit upstream. Going downstream was a different |
