Show ED IAN WINKLE HAS BEEN AT E J van winkle has herded cat tie he in the henry mountains and has been at hite on the colorado river ed says that one time he crossed the big river in a boat during fair ly high water conditions when th the water was all a churn and boiling and romping down the bed as it if all possessed ed could not swim so as he looks back at the ded now ne shudders across the river from hite in the canyon known as white canyon ed says there was a tort fort or moki house of the ancient indians which he has been in walls were still standing at the time of his visitation another one on this side of the river below hite but pretty well pawed over and gutted by relic hunters rd id says that he went down to the river horseback via but has never been down north canyon rube turner freighted down north canyon and for two years slept IT il the cabin at hite and during high water tied his boat to the hitching post next to the kitchen this Is shown in the improvement era in 1924 rube went down the river in a boat for about sixteen mil miles es or so rather the below ahead was in the boat and rube on a raft which the other man was to steer through by by going with the boat where he wanted to tow the raft rube says the water was so low that twice he felt the I 1 doggoned Taft 9 grate rate on the rocks as they went over some rapids but it did not hang up nor capsize for it rube got the magnificent pay of one whole great big shiny DOLLAR I 1 some wages d says he has ben in the cabin tor for oc coupled by cass hite at af ter cass was found dead there on the wall hung his hat and maga zincs by the hundreds on shelves aro ind the little cubby hole of a rom roni and out from the door only a f w feet the grave where cass was bur ed cass hite was one of the mary men with a past who sought a reffuge far away at just such a place as hite ed says he was an omnivorous readie a man of 0 ed of whom one rumor was tha in the east he had been an edi edl toi of a paper bad eggs editors are from personal observation I 1 thank ed and rube and court stewart and jett jeff pace and all the old timers who have ben on the riv er when I 1 go there I 1 will first write an obituary lying as I 1 do in them for use in case need be it 11 take quite a flowery one to whitewash a past almost hid and forgot thanks fellows ho tor for the big river |