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Show DEATH 1 1 FILMS tper Wth "Movie" 5 ;t Will Shoot Rapids 5 Colorado River DANGERS AHEAD j Equipment on First 1ft. b"1' Undaunted, frill Try Again. L womo pjcturd xp '. fct oo of Jus boat j fi tfjffii tla river and wik fjTerlaaa before reMhm . bla to secure horses -STJS i mlroad nj civil Tw inll return to th; Colo l,ftV ds3 fontinua the trip J' , tioaswi miles by row- t Are Continuous - .1 wr nl Ch"15 Kaell, both jbSmen ii larmK rapid fytGreea Barer, Utah July i i fcOOO moving pi tura eqiup-.STthe eqiup-.STthe perilous trip from iT of tbe Green and Grand S tie Colorado r ver be- Juira through Cataract an Caluornia, where the Lam 5om Orand e&njon. The " boatm through 20 miles 2 Saw nptia. at many points rSg lunous Whirlpool rapids of - 'a. nw Part of this dis & Colorado river is running j, the state of tah althougn I al greater part of it is in i tee Rams some idea or tne t tf the water through -wh eh B mitt nde when it is known Dcrt Cataract canyon the nver ' Wfeet in les than 40 miles t flf this in less than half a U treaty feet at one point in anrds. In Grand can) on the m point is eighty feet to the i mi e i The danger of shoot it lipids is greatly augmented tra romber of giant rocks j tie river throughout the en !e of its rapids. pbDeep an aayon begins with the river 4 fceween two sheer walls of 3M feet id height, and at various 1 tee watts, which inclose the ' Better s de for about foxy ce to a height of over 3000 i b 1 picturesque trip as well as L'&as one. There are rapids in tie nter torn into ribbons of W tie rocks, is tossed into the iEjr or thirty feet. art between the rocks at such s fleas almost impossible to anv Jsiig on tie bask, and pictures :i fois should prove to be jes on tie screen During the 3 a tie intention of Loper to far miles of future films in a to nearly a thousand photo-- photo-- fis already has made arrango-:&r arrango-:&r hsposaE of the stat onary a. the &nta Fe and K 0 Grande ii each hawng made arrange-: arrange-: fsr aas them m advertising aa paadeur of the eountn 1 rtich they pa s sr Sticks to Plan. ecu of the tnp whici he is Ir Loper said -J tie Ices of part of our 3 a suite an inconvenience to "really means nothing more ui 1 loss of time. The money ' Jf tie lost outfit was about We lad alreadv shot twenty a.J'Tera 0f ttem more dan thin the one in wh eh the t oceorred. Eostell mv part m making the rap d while Tstttadin to the camera He Onega the npper part of the odj tie WOrst part w th tthap hot was unable to make ? and had to enter the uo of the rap A w th hi e than half i lied with Lta ,be verT m llle of t wt eipsized and t looked to I would ha e to make the t"DaIone for I saw fcH'ett ng out nter ahve He managed 2jt',U1S;,t0 the boat . iteiS ,1" th?mbers until the lM4 through the most dan "Prtof fhe wate on Rock. WMlad strnek a oek wh 3Ke fore a r el amber anl jptas Hosiell rea-hel the ?rLv e a,m an 1 crawle 1 ffi, J nallv reacheJ 3Vad,r exhausted but nn f0vr we thought t It. heen beached farthe b.oat contaned some SLT, r a" onr food up 3JK t imiosble to pro TJ5C ",e wthout re kiff,.0" s'?ek ve had to C m o er tho StoJ 1 " ltah bt,re ' of ,1? llIna,1 hab tat on Wa ll 'angers of the tr p JLoper a I that hej has made one t p through Cataract can on just for the pleasure which su h an adventure m gh afford. ThiB tr p was made in companj with Russell h s p esent compan on Russell he said, continued the y alone from the end of Cataract can on on thro gh G eu eanvon and thro .h Crand anvon This was se en years ago and since that time e e en men ha ost the r lives at tempting to dui.1 ate the feat. One of these nfortunate meo Charles bmitu I made the tnp essf llv about th ee ears ago and th n attempte 1 to repeat t last Tall He left Creen R ver last September but d 1 ot reach Hite Pee of his boat vere found weeks te and there can be 1 ttle doubt thit Sin th was lrowne" Tnp Is Perilous Four years ago a an eached Hite nearly dead fron huuger and exhaus t on. He was near) naked a d to d a storv of having left Green River w th a ompan on to make the tr p throug Cataract canyon b boat H s compan on he said, had bfen drowned Alonzo Turner ot flanks 1 e made the trip about fi e vears ago anl still tells of he adventure w th ome pr le Loper has made h hon e on tbe Col 0 ido river for a n mber of yea s be ng the owner of a ran h and son e acer round not tar from H te Hi c ose fam 1 ar tj w t the raj ds an 1 w th the conntr anj hs long exper n e with boatng on the Colorado de t a ts from the lang r of t e ovage Hp o tends howe that to enha e t e I amat c val e of t e r tures both be and K ssell are a u n g u an r s' n boo ug the raj J hat ha e ne er 1 n atte upted n an? prev ous expe 1 t on tr Pussell has had some ex 1 er eh e a tl e handl of feature p c I tures and when the tr p is completed w!l probably jla e the picture before the public personally |