Show 't'liu'r 3W !£& - raa By Two ' Pearl Baker TAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE (1969) In 1964 Marston relocated a D pioneer Emery Kolb 93 and Otis MDock” Marston 80 recently completed a run of the Colorado River's rapids in Marble and Grand Canyons a The raft trip was Kolb's announced farewell to the river that had brought him adventure fame and success Accompanying the two famed river-runne- river-runne- rs ra Section B 'r'iirr : ssfitS sWs- Jullen inscription in Cataract Canyon last noted in CHRISTIAN SCIENCE This inscription unfortunately is now under the waters of Lake Powell MONITOR was More Trips Ahead Marston told Hoffman at the completion of their May raft trip that he anticipates making more trips down the Colorado but Kolb announced the May trip would be his fi- nal one When the heli- copter carrying Kolb rendezvous at the mouth of the Little Colorado River with the raft carrying Marston the two river pioneers greeted each other with pleasure and boarded their raft for a historic trip As they rode the river these two old friends exchanged rem-i- n iniscences and camp shared comradeship and argued the merits of bow- - Kolb and Marstonplay-e- d important roles in the exploration and river-runniof the Green and Colorado rivers in the and HoffCanyonlands man went on the trip to photograph and listen to ng jh An account of 1921 that trip appeared in the a group of river historians Among them was John Hoffman who has been in the Moab area for the last year and half collecting information on the geography and history of the Canyonlands National Park region for the preparation of a book on the Canyonlands I23JUI Heavy Fines Levied 8y District Court The maximum sentence was meted out' to 3 de- fondants on marijuana charges and a very full calendar was heard in Seventh Judicial District Court Tuesday by Judge Edward Sheya Terry J Harmon David Henry Young and IiOri Ann Stover appeared for arraignment on a charge of possessing about 50 lbs of marijuana with intent to distribute it free of charge Upon arraignment each of the defendants entered a plea of They appeared guilty with their attorney William Benge and waived the time for pronounce 9f Judgment and asked that sentence be pronounced immediately fast-wat- er re ot tine Simpson and Tracey Lynn Luevano all minors In the probate division the court granted the fi- nal accountings and petitions for distribution in the estates of George E Jennings and Nelson G Hurlburt and also confirmed the sale of personal property in the estate of Clive C Stewart In the civil division Judge Sheya quieted title in the case of Mr and Mrs Jimmy Kay Richardson against the City of Moab and others The court granted adi- vorce to Patricia Jeanne Huff from Ronald K Huff and to Margaret Diane Dickerson from Ronald Ray Dickerson A writ of prohibition ascertainment against City Judge Donald Upon that there was no legal D Crist was denied The the reminiscences of these two early boatmen The trip was arranged toflIlandtrn-flrttecJh- “ and outfitted by Ron Sml- - This photo of Ellsworth Kolb’s Cataract Canyon and his brother Ellsworth is cooning the boat wreck was taken on niques for running rapids 28 1921 the boat (Hoffman Collection) September by th’s Grand Canyon Expe Hoffman and the others Lint Kolb on Leigh the boat is the “I Emery A” ditions of Kanab Utah — —— —— realized the present 7 Smith provided two and burro riders northern boundary of the literature of the Amer- - and lowest waters in the unique privilege they en- kers rubber rafts each smallest boat and the joyed in riding the rapids reason the descent into national park at Bowknot ican West sentence why manned by a boatman and making Bend At the Confluence The Kolbs made a se- - first complete upriver with these two "Grand should not be pronounced the canyon assistant The head boatThe Kolbs made their of the Green and Colo- cond trip on the Canyon- - run In 1964 he ran Cat- - Old Men of The River" Judge Sheya ordered that man was John Sohrweide river trip in 1911 rado in the heart of the lands’ rivers in 1921 On aract Canyon in a 7 foot each defendant pay a fine and the second boatman first In that year they left park the brothers left a this trip Ellsworth acted plastic Sportyak in the sum of $1900 the was Wayne McAllister Green River Wyoming painted inscription Hoff- as head boatman for a "Dock" was a consul-da- m maximum for the offense Trip participants met on a survey party from tant to the Walt Disney that eventually man visited and photoFour National Park and gave the defendants in Las Vegas on May took trip them to Needles graphed the now faint the Southern California Studio for the movie TEN Service a lecture on the danger 17 and the following moremployees this of narcotics The purpose painted inscription last Edisori Company and the WHO DARED a fictional week received California and told incentive ning went to Lees Ferwas to film April while on a seven US Geological Survey account of the first de-I- n this of ever them apif they trip of in awards recognition ry Arizona to begin their a motion picture of the day Cataract Canyon one scent of the Colorado in expedition to before him again river run which en- river canyons of the locate aboriginal and his- of the boats the "LA” 1869 by Major John Wes-w- their interest in improv- peared a much harsher penalty ded 280 miles downforced onto a rock by ley Powell "Dock" is a ing park operations and would be meted out Green and Colorado This toric sites along the riFerstream at Pierces film is still shown in the vers He had also been Dark Canyon Rapid The superb raconteur and practices Judge Sheya also adA check for $250 went ry near the head of Lake Kolb’ Studio at the Grand to the Kolb inscription boat was stranded forov- - some of his best stories the defendants monished National Park Mead From there they er 24 hours but was sal- - are about his experiences to Arches On the 1911 trip at Bowknot Bend u be the policy would Canyon W oe raid theSorreturned to Las Vegas the In 1914 Ellsworth vaged by Emery rigging on this assignment boated to deal grave- of court brothers the SJfor exceeding Marston has spent mal with anyone convicted through country that la- wrote a book about their an ingenious pully sys- of his requirements Met at Junction tern to unload the boat The book river Canmore than on drug charges in the of became ter trip thirty years part extended an over Marston made the enNational Park THROUGH THE GRAND after 'which it was lif- - collecting and fifing ma- position of time To Glen period tire trip but Kolb heli- yonlands and terial on the Colorado CANYON FROM WYOMted off the rock D Alexander Unit Man- Court ING MEXICO enthe coptered to the junction TO he ver carried is rapid through Delbert Owen Oliver Presently Inscriptions Canyonlands Naager of the Colorado and LitThe Kolbs marked their an introduction by Owen gaged in writing a major tional Park went $200 Jr appeared for ar- tle Colorado where he passage through the Can- Wister and is considered Near Disaster book on the history of on one count raignment joined the party He ran yonlands by leaving sev- by historians to be a good Ellsworth Kolb descri- on the Co- a of dpveloolna t entering dwelling with a 14 rapids to below Crys-the near disastrous lorado River This book is eral inscriptions on the account of the trip The intent to commit a theft was reprinted Rapids where a heli- river canyon’s walls A volume in his diary: "Ab- - eagerly awaited by every- improved therein and on a second copter lifted him out of chisled inscription is lo- many times and has beon (September 27 one with an interest in the th Park radio a guitar system coupt of Stealing the canyon- cated upriver-fro- nt which were the come ' a classic in the 1921) wesrrivrarDark Colorado River and the 'and amplifier were nooorea Also Kolb was anxious to run Canyon The rapid has West When Marston’s alleged tO be Worth more Maherv im Crystal Rapids because not mproved with age in book is finished his wealth than $100 but less than it had changed from a fact it’s much worse has of Colorado River infor- - !id wSS NewelLtech- -' $1000 The defendantap- minor rapid to a major about 50 rocks badly pla- - mation will be put into with his attorney nidan Arches National and one since his Whitewater ced on the south side and the’ famed Huntington a Plea ?f Ms and Park Mabery days A flash flood in a dangerous turn fil- - brary in California af- 5®$ NeweU were each award1966 had washed a drift led with great rocks Still Another facet of Mar-- I ter advised by being folly edSMfor of big boulders into the the court of his consti- thought it could be run ston’s interest has been which would prove riverbed greatly increasand save a lot of time D Julien the early fur to local Park Ser- tutional rights Upon stiing the rapid’s severity I was mistaken trader and trapper who ficial Evidently pulation of counsel Judge activities Kolb has lived at the One loaded boat the LA traveled in the Canyon -- vice Sheya ordered a awIn presenting the South Rim of the Grand was put in landed in a lands in the 1830’s and report to be for- ards Park Canyon since 1902 senest of rocks 50 feet from left several inscriptions dent Robert 1Superintennished prior to the next Kerr ex- Law venteen years before the the south shore Got a along the walls of the tended and Motion tey Sep- congratulations tember 17 at which time canyon was made into a line from shore but our rivers Marston did ex- tothese national park He and his late brother Ellsworth stSM-aJSestablished a photographline to shore The Edi- - standing biography of the The court granted the ic studio on the canyon’s son 'half loaded did a trapper for Volume 7 of of Henry Butler adoptions rim next to the head of little better lodged on a LeRoy Hafen’s MOUN- - muon candy Chris- the Bright Angel Trail flat rock but was shoved ' Over the years the two a chisled Kolb brothers inscription at Bowknot Bend off and landed safely The brothers photographed marking their historic 1911 boat trip To the right Static was emptied of canyon vi- - 0f the inscription is a faintly scratched date noting ted better but went into sitors particularly hi- - their return on a 1921 river trip (Hoffman Photo) the turn and capsized I hung to the boat but until it approached the Island Rapid where I swam out The boat got into an eddy 100 ft below Tasker (a rodman for the survey party) had made a run and came down in the Edison and the boat was towed to shore Both boats were towed back to camp at lower end of the Tapid" Ellsworth’s diary ent1 ry for September 28 37-fo- : -- jet-bo- at petitioner Theadore Ed- -' gar Ford alleged that Moab City Court was without jurisdiction to hear a case filed against him charging that he drove a motor vehicle on a public highway while and when under the influence of an Intoxicating liquor ftsj ay as Quiet Week Reported 6 river-runni- forn ng Xch£tiv SStS iS Li-h- as iSGS! pre-senten- srircsrs S star-thousan- iwSSsr! ce i POf a ouiet Jujy veekfnd fourth-o- f- n M°ab incidents during the previous week On July 2 in the parking lot Daniel Alfred Black backed his 1968 1969 Pontiac ? Mnt0a belonging to Randall Sac-- Person doing about $100 the Pontiac and $25 to the Rebel Black was issued a citation for driving while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor : Police Chief Mel Dalton and Officer Jim arrested Delbert 01- 5-- en al Mce Moab City Police ra- - Ri-tak- jNtTJi j ’ & : Ny-la- and July3 Jr-o- n nd charged him with 1 count of burglary and 1 count of theft or a guitar and amplifier valued at about $800 from the ren sidence of Dorren ” - 'i Tan-gre- 317 N Main am li'vio ME: Ss- ! Mr and Mrs Curtis 'Robertson spent the weekend in Salt Lake Ci their chil- - jisiting ds ’I 19-2- continued the narra- tive: "Emery has made a pully out at a 4 inch (diameter) cottonwood stick and some 1 inch (diameter) sticks It is swung on the ropes with a line both ways We go to boat and run the oad : to ' shore Takes until nearly nponTltcboatwas Off - kndfrftMv! Igried j 1 a rtDocivfMarston first river trip 31 years after the Kolb’s 1911 trip but he still was among the first 100 people ' made his I to ride the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon ‘‘His first trip was with v i the Norman Neville Expe dition of 1942 Since then he has made the trip about 25 times Recognized Authority Marston is a recognized authority on the Colorado River having run its rapids researched its history and written about the river Ills accomplishments Include rs Pioneer ’Emery Kolb' 93 left and Otis "Dock kfarstoh : VrtoviftS rurt toe Grind £an yon rapids with 'the first 80' seated on- a reft at the mouth of the Little Colorado River at their Grand power boat in the highest Photo) (Hoffman river Canyon trip May Marble iS fast-wat- er 'Si river-runne- - I |