Show I I o g Gre reel n River l iv r The Cl Chieftain ie is in re receipt of the follow itt interesting re ting communication com corn nun from S. S S. S S. S dorff olio is one ole of a party of explorers now navigating the Greet Greer reen river intending to follow folio the stream to its ts junction with the Gulf of California T The e etter letter q dated Vernal Sept ent 30 says As panned I met Mr r Galloway Galloway Gal Gal- loway in Vernal on pp the 3rd and andon andon andon on the we were ver off for Green River r City Wyo yo arriving arriving ing ing- there on pp tile the and meeting meet meet- te jn ing the others of pI o our our- r party who reached d the to town e earlier in in q tl the e day dayVe We Vo were rained on almost every day fro frost the till W Wre we re reached the Railroad note Motel in Green I hiYer iv iyer r and nd the r resting tip place was indeed 3 q haven after fier daily soakings in s Yet we prep prepared red for an early start from this thi point and wh when n nwe we loaded O ded our bo boats t and found things thing in jp order it t was wa noon the thel l th of Sept September ely the faca of chal changed the sun suI shown out opt and to this thin day we not hn had a cloud lon on the river We Ye h have ve r ran ll rapid or better fl is a varia variable variable vari vari- a able Ie quantity as B higher r water makes make the rapids fewer ver and low Y water t r increases se t the e number nUrI We Ve keep p posted by Powell and Den works as to how they got hot along at nt the points where re we camp and aud find them thema a n month behind us ps as to the ther r rapidity of progress pt fit this point of course they were taking taking tak tak- ing ing- geographical bearings bearing all along alone and portaging n around rapids rApid those those they did run almost almost al al- al- al most t always ending in a more or less serious accident I where we have thus far be been Il IlIr Mr Ir Galloway y the guide has run all nIl the boats thru a half dozen of the worst rapids not deeming it safe to allow us to torun torun run rup them diem all nU In Ladore we had llad to carry our boats feet oT on a account co t of the large numbe number of boulders rs That day Wt worked hard as t we carried cargoes oyez over first then hosts boats This rapid w was waa about three of a Q mile in iq length th One rapid here ere had a a. fall of t e and a half fe feet t in iq 1900 fe feet t of the river river- five of then the in 1 t the e first fe feet t which V. you se see is ia pretty swift It In Split Mountain canyon can can- yon we ran 20 26 rapids our g guide ide deeming deemin it unsafe for u us 11 to run one of these ho po took all the boats bolts bonts over running running- thru with his Iris then conning coming and tak ing the others rs in ip turn Split Mountain canyon constituted Q one once days day's work When V en we stopped at dra Mr Ir Warner of Vernal IU suet met t lu l- l u up us in io his auto an and took nil of r our party ty into Ashley valley llcy and we were v ro entertained by Mr l Gibson treat d to a q flee fine banquet We Ve will be off oft a again ain tomorrow v the 1st as wt wO we were e unexpectedly delved delayed Will Vill let you hear bear from us whet we ye Y r reach Ach Gr Green en River Utah S. S S. S DUBE PP PF |