THROUGH THE canyon galloway and dubendorff have start cd ad 0 o pilot the tha party through the rapids of he grand canyon of the colorado than galloway left this week for airn rivet river city to make reidy for the I 1 trip down the green ilver the tha uty u ty consists of five inn J r stone of columbus ohio prominent in business arid and education ills his bust buei ness partner mi ali sharp of west virglnia J it A cogswell of california the official photographer nathaniel galloway of vernal guide S S du bondorff of myton just a soon as mr air stone and party arrive at green river city the trip will begin and mr air galloway said ho he thought it would mould be between the and of september there will be four boats and every man must be an oarsman mr air galloway thinks they will reach the needles in lower california in the toie part of december following the stream as they intend doing all the way may they thay will mill have traveled led in ajl aji probability two amo thousand mile milea a the measurement on a wall map without considering the try ery crooked river but taking the general course the dis tance is over one thousand miles for many years ars than galloway has traversed sad the canyons c of the rocky mountain streams ills his first quest waster fuls fuis and lie he knows where they ire are found later he made long iong voy oy ages in small boats fw foi the advent ure thero there was in it and he has acted as guide a few times lie has been through tho the cataracts three times and the whole distance of the green colorado river to the needles once lie he had bad some interesting experiences Is on that trip one of which he related to the writer ariter just before leaving thia time in the fall of 97 william richmond of wyoming joined galloway gallow ay in a trip through tho the grand candon cans on of the colorado they T hey made good progress but were ever liming having thrilling experiences lost his boat twice upon one occa islon he was thrown into tin me a citver 47 and good av swimmer Nimmer he reach d shore and seeing the boat snagged in mid stream ha swam to it and released it but without oars oara so lie he made for shore again this feat might seem simple enough but the tha stream was v very ery turbulent mr air galloway said he never saw sain such grit as richmond showed upon several occasions whon when they reached tle tl e mouth of the river two gentlemen wm win davis and J L St steams eanis were there pasadena trying to 0 o get someone to go with inith them down the elvei to the bluffs where two miners had been killed by a mexican Alex ican la in the gi gian an ite ita cliffs four miles back from the tha river and only accessible access ablo able from the river galloway and richmond sold their boats to davis and stearns steams and p nd hired out to rescue the bodies of the miners rough coffins awe atre made of the boats left b the ranea ri nera a and tho the nail call holes were mere plugged the bo bodies ales which had lain for sixteen days were placed inthe in the crude coffins coffing and carried to the river the trip to the needles miles was made without a stop atop only for meals day and night they rowed and made an an average of sev seven eu and a half miles an hour anheir A hen they reached their destina tion Gal galloway loNNay and richmond cid set out for home having haning blent newly nearly a year in their trip down the water of am erichs most rugged and fascinating liver iier in about twenty days after the baity leaves green river wyoming they will mill be at jensen and the flat bottom river boats may ba seen the boats wore planned by mr dir Gal galloway lomay and built in Dei holt midi than galloway has tho the nerve for any undertaking some say eay he Is absolutely and dont know what the void mold fear means 11 ile he sas ho has never been tipped over mer in the elvei et although ho he has fol followed loved trapping and been run ning ding the rapids of the green and Coloia colliado do rivers for seventeen years and attributes hla his success to being careful in fact lie he says he is so BO cautions that it borders on co cowardice mardice that is the i way ay he explains his sue suc cess one rash act of a fearless arlees fe man who ho did not sense the danger would A certainly result in disaster in the grand canon of the alie colliado Coloia do nap oleon once said bald the man who aho knows kanom s the danger and faces it is the bra brave 0 mam maa dut but than galloway is not the only man in this county who lai faced the rapids the box canyons and h ho cataracts of this mighty river F V goodman Good iuan who lives iines over on little brush creek was with the government headed by major powell that started down thu tho from green river city wyom inin 1867 in III the laden e canyon which to Is about fifty miles east of vernal the cho boat mr air goodman was rowing capsized arid and he lost all his clothing and la in tact fact wery everything thing lie ho possessed at tile the time fool upon reaching the point where ouray nou noa stands lie ile quit the party and made its his way back overland capt dodds was also aall acquainted with powell and conti contracted acted to deliver supplies eup plies to his party at different points along the liver and at one time was mas lost on the desert in southern utah tor for soy sev oral eral days with only a mule for a companion there was one man ho however Neer who was with the powell expedition from start to finish and who per performed farmed many acts of bravery that was w as jack sumner father of ed dd and 13 A sumner who conduct the uintah liv livery y barn in vernal mr air sumner died two years yeara ago july esth in the fort duchesne hospital ile he only lived a short time in vernal but was a well known in western and northern colorado in maj or powells powell s book sumner is mentioned many times sumner saved powells ell life in the tha lower canyons powells boat capsized and as lie he was tossed about on the rough waters sumner grabbed powell by the hair and dragged him aim imao the boat he was steering mr air galloway and mr air dubendorff have consented cemented to write oteis lc to the venial expires from different points on their trip as they travel down the river and we me may also publish a portion cn of the account of the trip of powell relative to north eastern utah as aa he viewed the coun try in 1867