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Show Record a dangerous one, the Trachyte rapid. About a mile below Hite was 3567 Big Rock rapids. Around the bend, possibly a mile and half from there, was a small rapid that was only dangerous in high water. Between there and the mouth of Red Canyon there are a few small rapids, and a rapid there called " Pickaboo No. 1" and directly around a curve from there you come into Pickaboo rapids No. 2. Those were both what you would consider bad rapids. Then just below the landing at the cabin at Pickaboo there was a swift rapid, and there were two of that character between there and Good Hope, as I remember now. We made the return trip by principally towing the boat back up the river. Through most of the rapids we had to get out and wade in the rapids and pull the boat an inch at a time out of the shallow into the deeper water at the head of the rapids. I think it was in June or July, 1889 that a post- office 3568 was established at Hite. I was post- master. The mail was brought in from Greenriver on saddle and pack horses. I continued to be post- master there until September, 1896, During all the time I was post- master the mails were brought in overland. I do not believe the patrons of the post- office ever exceeded 20 or 25 in the whole community at any one time. That included the surrounding camps and the mountains, the cow camps and prospectors and trappers 3569 and all. I would say that the territory supplied by the post-office was about 50 miles square. I cannot recall who at the mouth of the San Juan got their mail there. They were attempting placer mining there and some of them were trappers. There wore two trappers that were down in the canyon every winter and got their mail there. They towed a boat up the river from where they were. The first year I was there I frequently went from Hite to the mouth of the Dirty Devil river. In the way of mining operations 3570 there was little activity at North wash. Six or eight men were work-ing. They did not have extensive mining equipment. I lived there on the Colorado River from December 1888 to |
