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Show Record 20 miles. 3930 The work that we were doing on that occasion did not require that we stop and get out of the boat, except to keep the boat going, because the inner canyon of the river is low, and it rives so gently that you can see it for miles and miles and everything is bare rock. Our work both up and down the river did not engage our attention so much that it interfered with the operation of the boat. I could look around and see that the strata in sight were just about as they had been for a long while back, and then look ahead and see what it was ahead. Mr. Turpin attended to the engine, and watched the river quite closely, and I did too, looking at the river and then at the walls, and then back again. The next day, the 8th, we traveled from mile 22 to mile 38, 12 miles. We got a late start that morning, because we 3931 stopped at mile 22 and made a collection of fossils. We could tell when e arrived at these different mile posts from a map we had. That day we had difficulty just below the Cane Creek well. I waded very nearly the width of the river there trying to find a place that we could go over easily. We finally decided that it would be simpler to get out and haul, and the two of us hauled the boat about 100 yards to water that was around my knees, which was deep enough to float it. 3932 The map that we had only showed sand islands. There were islands in that stretch. They had changed their shapes since the map was made. The maps showed the banks up to a fixed height, the contour of the banks, the mouths of the side canyons, and the names of the side canyons. Pages 17, 18 and 19 of Exhibit 10 are the maps we used. 3933 The next day, the 9th, we spent a good deal of time collecting fossils near the Tame Creek Dome. We traveled 11 miles. I do not recall any great trouble on that day. On August 10th we went the rest of the way to Moab. We struck shallow water repeatedly but we were able to push off. |
