Show SALT LAKER LAER FACES DEATH 0 Ii iE if THRILLING T TRIP RI P ON RAFT i I Th That t once famous story The rhe Rapids Rapids Rapids Rap Rap- ids Are Ale B Below low You was vas brought vividly viv- viv vividly viv idly to the mind of A A. A R. R Ic 1 itt freight claim agent for the Oregon last week weel as asha I Short Line many times timet fhe he ha with three other men shot down I eighty miles of the south fork forI of the Sn Snake river in Idaho on a a. frail raft i says that the he experience was one never never to be forgotten and that the party experienced a new sensation I nearl nearly every minute of the trip While similar trips are said to have been made made before It is claimed that this is the first time It has been boen made by a Salt Laker The party part consisting of A A. A R. R Mc 1 George E E. Hill a former Salt SaltI Salt I Lake newspaper man man malf now mayor o of i Idaho and a candidate for the state senate on the Democratic ticket tick tick- i et Joseph Coucher marshal of Rigby I and land an experienced and William Crowther manager of the i Payette Fayette Lumber company compan left Rigby by team and went up the south fork forI of the Snake river for sixty-five sixty miles The party established camp across the i river from the ranch of George D. D i Keysor lormer city commissioner of 1 Salt Lake Here they spent a day or two fishing and then went up the river for a short distance to a point where whre a large number of logs had been cut for floating down the river Frail Raft Is Used I Under the direction of Coucher Coucher- the party built a raft composed f thirty thirty-foot thirty logs The raft was in two sections each thirty feet long and about fifteen feet wide On this frail craft the four men put all their camp outfit and started down the river At AtI I times the raft moved along at a rate of about five miles an hour at others I it would dash through h rapids and andi i wh whirlpools at at more snore twenty than than thant t twenty miles an lOll pour r. r In describing the trip McI l tt said sald yesterday It It was WS 8 a sensation that I have never experienced before At times tims it would look hs s though nothing could save have us from going Into a bluff or hit some big bo boulder lder in the middle of or the stream Only th the experienced work of oC Coucher as a more than once prevented what might have been beena a serious accident Took Their Time The Tle Tile party could have lave ma made e the trip in from seven to eight hours but In Instead inI instead in- in I stead they took two days at nt anyplace any anyplace I place the party decided there might be good fishing the raft was brought toa toa to toa a standstill at one or 01 the other of the banks and a stop made as long as the members of the party wanted to stay Many a n. time when we were going through some of ot the many rapids I had hada a great desire to get to mother earth once more and I Ith think u that tI I promised myself that if I ever did I would never leave the earth again for fora a raft but I got over that after the trip and want to take another ride like it it The real thriller thriller-of of the trip came near the close of the second day at a point about sixteen miles east cast of Rigby when the raft was was was' shot over a fifteen foot dam which l declared looked as though It was a thousand feet high as the raft and its occupants struck the boiling seething whirlpool of water water wa wa- wa- wa ter below A. A Afew Afe few minutes later the raft glided safely into placid water and the rest of the trip was easy When ask asked d how many fish the party party par par- ty caught declined to answer on the ground that if he told only apart apart a apart part of the truth his friends would accuse him of being a relative of Annan Annanias |