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Show SEARCH WILL " I BE MADE FOB ) SURVEY.PARTY Arizona Sheriff and' Oth- ers to Start Monday on Trip in Canyon of Colo-( Colo-( rado River .' - GOING UPSTREAM . HUNDRED MILES scu Expedition Will Attempt Rapid in Boat Specially Mad for the Rough Water 4 . 7- ' KINO MAN, Aril.. Sept. J J A I patrol will enter th canyon of tba I Colorado rlvar tomorrow to March - J for the government exploration par- ty charting tho Colorado rlvar ' whooa unknown plight had caat a wave of alarm ovar Arizona tonight. ' A boat marked aa belonging to ths United State geological survey waa seen floating down th river yesterday yes-terday many miles from the point where th survey party waa thought to be. Tho explorere, unlea harm' haa ram to thsm. tonight are believed to le battling their way through raging current In th rock-strewn, tortuous rlvsr m one of ths moot dsngerous gorge of their voyag. Official here exprecerd renewed f cere for safety following reports ! today that l her ws only slight recension re-cension In ths water of tho rlvsr, now unusually high, du to hegvy. rain. Th patrol party, .headed by Sheriff Sher-iff W, H. Mahoney of Mojavs county, coun-ty, who will be aided by throe deputy dep-uty sheriffs, will' attempt, t take off In the river rapids tomorrow morning, but doubt was expressed by the sheriff whether they oould oet out with tho river la It present swollen condition. , . WILL DRIVE 100 MILCS. : ' Afembor of th patrol wtll drive :jfi Pech Sprlnga, a dials nc of lsbout IN mils, and there attempt to launch their boat. esieclally eon-'.)nicted eon-'.)nicted -to wlthetend the peril Of I navigation In the si i esi sllusi Mr Ma-' Ma-' hnney wa requested today by Acting Act-ing Governor R. E. McOlllaa to form th patrol xpedltlon. V : Th governor stmultaneouely aent t tha war department at Waahing-Jrtsn Waahing-Jrtsn a telegram auggestlng that an airplane b sent to fly over th eenyon country and attempt to locate lo-cate tho party. Apprehension for the safety of . the explorer was expreeeed her ' several days ago whan , th river-roee river-roee to flood 'slag as tha result I of torrential rain which caused I floode In porta of northern Arlsona. I Thee fear were augmented by . ; the report brought to Kingman laet ' Bight by R. L Dlmmlck. superintendent superinten-dent of tha Katharine mine, which i Is In an Isolated spot nesr ths river, that a boat with tha letters f7. O. S" had floated down the river upside down, at a point, approxl-' approxl-' matsly 100 miles from where tha - party now la scheduled to be. BOAT PAINTED GRAY. Mr. Dlmmlck eald" ha wa convinced con-vinced th boat belonged to th United State geological ui-vey, which I conducting the charting trip down th river. It was pslntsd Srsy and ro,iJxut II feet long. . WI4. , iiliee with th slss of tho b'HIIIficd by th survey warty, wbf!7" front It to It feat long. ' . . I , R. vr. "Iv of th Vnltad State eo urvey eald hr tonight Im d determlnad that a boat -'"-i l the one - sighted floating up J down la the rapids of the Colorr rtver near Katharine Kathar-ine mine laat'l hursday, had broksn from Its moorlnga In tho Orand cayon Is at Wsdneeday. 'Mr. Blrde-rjle. Blrde-rjle. who is a cousin of Colonel C. H. yurdeey. commander of tha axp-XdltMn, axp-XdltMn, expreeeed the opinion that It was thla boat which floated down tha stream and which previoaely waa believed to belona to th exploring ex-ploring party now charting- the An river. RIVEN ON RAMPAQE. V " Tha Colorado In tha Grand can- eron went on a rampage early In 7e week and . the . awlft . current ' hurled the boat over and aent It down stream at auch a rate that It could have reached the Katherlne mine by Thursday, ssid Mr. Blrds- ' eye. Finding of tho boat, he aald, decreases ths possibility of any cas- . ualtteo among member of the par-1 ty exploring tha Colorado canyon. .1- Sheriff W. P. Mahoney. upon be-Ing be-Ing Informed of Mr. Blrdseys's dse-laratlon dse-laratlon swslled the Istter's eptnlon 'ion th plan of Bending a searching warty Into the canyon tomorrow. Th heriff said, however, tht th I flood wter of th river had not receded re-ceded noticeably In the last two . day and that he still oonaldared the position of th xplorr In th canyon dangeroua. even though It develop for a certainty that th boat olghted In th rtvr do not belong to the party. - |