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Show Record east to Warm Creek, extending north about eighteen miles to the 3371 Arizona line. I was there in September, October, November and a part of December, 1917, and our party got clear over to the Colorado River. The supplies for our party came overland. For about two months in 1923 I was in and around Hall's Crossing on the Colorado River, making public surveys. I didn't get down to the water's edge but worked on the breaks just above the river. I didn't get down off the high land and I wasn't at 3372 Hall's Crossing. The supplies for that party came overland. Hanksville has about ten or twelve families and there are no other towns between there and the Colorado River. On that trip I was where I could see the Colorado River and observed no boats 3373 or other people besides our party. At that time there was no one at the town of Paria. I didn't go to Lee's Ferry. I spent five or six seasons in the countries south and east of Hanksville and there are no towns in that section. I recall three or four people who lived there. I have also covered the river from Moab to a point about ten miles below Shafer No. 2 Well, making public surveys 3374 and meandering. We then had our headquarters at No. 2 Well and we obtained our supplies by boat and by pack train. We used an eighteen foot row boat, equipped with an outboard motor, in our surveying operations to cross the river and reach certain points on the river and sand bars on the river; also for going downstream to certain points and upstream to certain points. Our motor filed us and we were unable to row upstream and we would get boat upstream by dragging it with a rope until we come to a bluff where 3375 we could cross and drag it to the other side. I left the survey below Moab about December 19, 1926, and at that time I was at Shafer NO. 2 Well. That upstream trip consumed a day and a halt. We made one stop at a point about six miles above Shafer No. 2 Well 3376 for about ten minutes. At several places we had trouble getting over the sand bars; maybe some places where the boat came down the 467 |
