Show early explorations axy A of green river gorge famous trips of ashley powell and others through grand canyon of the green river UNITED GEOLOGIC U the this fact that each one of these canyon added ot of one kind or other to the fund of information form bUon the re need reed ed tor for accurate turvey survey data upon which to base r pun plan for the development ot of the power and alone along the stream oam WM vina not satisfied according a geological survey party was wa w a cent sent into the canyons during the ot of 1 and nude a map and prof profile lie of 0 the river from oreen green river wyoming to green orem river ria properly con the tal t isolated surveys ot or reservoir site previously mad mads s by the bureau of reclamation andt cd uio tha survey of parts of desolation and gray amy candora Can yora made by the utah power and light company tle following C condensed d 4 account of the trip livies some of the sal salient leml facts de ter mined by thia this survey THE BOATS three boast for thia this expedition were built in wilmington Cali california fomia and shipped toy by rail to oreen river ither wyoming two of them were of the galloway type 18 feet lone and about 4 feet foet beam the other was 10 feet long ion and was similar in plan to a common flat bottomed row boat all of 0 them were decked 0 over er at eich ech end with only an open cock pit tn in the center afir the oarsman oman the end compa f ants were ecu p pod with hatch covers com which fastened with thumb nuta nuts thew these cov era em were viere made water tight by lining the contact edrea edges with rubber the frames of the boats were oak abd bad the two large ones had ship lapold sides the irbe bot bottoms a ere flat nat and were protected by oate oak strips runner run runn nir irr length lengthwise wim three men lii ill eluding the bodt ment rode on each of the large boata boats ard two to in the small one the pla sat on an the this hatches aft r some dell deliberation bera on name names for the boats the question was finally left to the boatmen with a result that the utah wyoming and colorado were chosen and painted on the respective boats PERSONNEL most of the party assembled early in july 1922 and made do camp on scotts Mot bottoms torna a few miles belov below the town of oreen green luver wyoming K M NV W trimble the engineer wea in charge 3 D jr was geologist 1 I R woolley was as hydraulic engineer and recorder 11 II I 1 L stone rem the utah fowe I 1 and light company which wn I 1 cope co ratting in the work albert loper a man of many muty years ex peri ence along the colorado river was vas head boatman L 11 lint and it E blake cre ere and boatmen and john clogston was cook preparations were finally completed to push off on an the morr morning of july 13 and the renine before was as spent a a dinner enter talent ent ghen gisen tn in honor ot of the party by the community club of oreen green alier artl er the I 1 bon vo are ot of the club had a rather meaning mean ang to the members of the parts utter after listening to the vivid talen of unsuccessful attempts to navigate the cannons by daring ad TO diorge the barrco waste land through ich alch the stream 1113 meanders me andera brew grew so somewhat monotonous by the time tame mining Plain gorge was reached this monotony however vas as broken several times by the snail isolated ranches on one banh bank or the other of the stream some of these were abandoned and at the others the occupants were fighting a d desperate battle with ith the alkali and ind other obstacles in an effort to make u home at many ny place places in the stream sim sand bars kept the party guessing to where the deepest channel ais was ard sometimes poor guesses hung the boats up on an bars bus chere it WM as necessary for the boat man to get out and work them into deep water mater again at smith perry ferry about a male above the mouth of henrys fork preparations were made to begin the suney of the barning gorge reservoir site te nude made by the united bureau at of itoe reclamation in 1914 it had covered the rier from fron tre tle dam site in horseshoe canyon up ito to the town of green oreen river wyoming FLAMING georgr A definite llevat on was taken from the permanent gm vical survey bench mirk m irk near nent linwood on henry fort and the tie mapping work was done as the party proceeded down the rarer prom from smith perry I erry the river appears to drop into a hold in the uinta range and this Is no doubt the I 1 suck I 1 spoken of by beckwith then suddenly the noth wall of flamin TUrn trig gorge with its vivid hues of red brown and und ocher rises I 1 ike ke ft A huge he flame of fire ahad ah ad the forge Is just a mile long end and form forms a very Impre impressive entrance to tt the series of canyons below belov 0 A N 1 0 N ho no besho canyon which immell I 1 attly follows tile flaming mining gorge j Is 1 but a little les less than three miles long through tho the gorge end and horseshoe Carvon 3 box eldr trees arc am scar cred alons along each bank bink warf the walla walls offer fotine find pire tree dot the slopes extending down to the waters aters edge in places tie ti e solid rok walls are we almost ver alc tlc and rise several hundred feet above the river the eray shades a C the rock ava the tar ot t pine and the river tta its way between the walla walls form ona a v 0 cabat changing chans lne panorama CANYON from prom mouth or of the canyon the riler riser in IL bend changes tta its course from northwest to southeast as it passes thrown through nellson flat TULL aid and enter era em canyon this canyon to 13 etui still the habitat of a great many my king fishers and the name is as applied to the canyon in 1869 bv by majam renalta appropriate the Ls is not riot much over a mile lory long md and Is very the river li is tike like a placid lake and the beautiful colored canyon walls with their green tram clinging to the elopes an we perfectly reflected in the river as a huge mirror sheep creek a small crystal stream empties into the green from the west near the foot of the canyon anc and about a half mile farther down tho ri rier er nuke a sharp turn tum to the left around point here a number of coeta pods on each bank and evidence of a trail trall indicate the locations of en an aban crossin crossing of orne sort the email small open area am lust below beehive point is 1 called hideout nat ara la is said to here have been at one time a 0 hide out for cattle thieves RED many bemlick elide and fresh deer tracks viere ere noticed nione the banka banks as th boata boats drifted liaf out flat and irto rt ri canyon within the first two miles s of this canyon four rapids were run and in orv of them the utah was hung up for a few minutes on a boulder in anid kwam tream about a quarter of a mile below the fourth rapid carter creek comes in from the south and here a carlip modi mada the rest of tile day being taken to survey areek caryon and make some repairs of shoes and oth r equipment bart carter r creek floa in a bucked porse forge with steep walls the whole loer lover part of the cannon canon ts is tilled filled with ith trees and ani brush making it ery difficult to tra traverse serge the stream tream at the time ot of this visit july 20 1922 carried about second feet or more of clear water and was well stocked with mountain trout as a vs by the fisherman ot of the party wio caught 35 in a little more than 2 hours before dark thus far the cu eton lon of drinkin ang water had no consideration as the wate had been fairly clear and there was ro ob to it but storms at one plate place and another on the large barren wren drainage areas above suddenly turned tte tie river aviter into a stream of mud and for the remainder of the trip one of the prerequisites of a good camp site sas as source of rood drinking water rands here encountered lm im wedia mediately lately tely after leaving carter creek and the fifth one about 2 miles below that stream was more than half halt mile loner long the river Is spotted with large boulders many of f which are an submerged only a few imbelli and although not visible through the muddy r were marked by eddies with which the boat ment were fat although ach each boatman exerted esery effort lo 10 avoid the rocks the became lodged on the top of one in midstream anil ara all efforts of 0 her boatman atman to to free here were ere futile fortunately the utah wa was still abbie the rapid ard went to the rescue the current was swift and tor for a few minutes ib it looked as it if the utah would shoot by without setting getting near enough to gie 1 any assistance IN finally mally in hia his effort to get et closer the boatman boi turned against the current LM the utah bumper the ing sf knocking her tree and mid what might otherwise have boft A difficult oblena p the tite boat men were wem all good swimmer swimmers and no camp waa was much TOO mood without a rood good hole one camp in red canyon WM was just below a splashy rapid added an interi interesting esting feature to tie tle irv imming as a the boys hod had great fim fun Ishou Ing the rapada in the life jackets abolt it 11 trues from the head ot of ned canyon the tha river mates a chup hairpin turn round around 16 low ridge extending down from one me ot of the canon walls and just beyond ahta tun trail and all alien allen creeks enter from the right only a few hundred ft feet apart both ot of these streams arc am small but they are la in terest teresing ng because of the tact fact that on old hermit makes hia home here and leada these creeks in be series of email ditches q oito the lew few acres vt of fertile aall oil that ho ile between them jk small area waa was planted to alfalfa al falta another to garden ad d still another was cohered with corn com almost choked by a rank growth or of clo closer cloer er the hermit vas was at home and ho bo waa was as much surprised to cr wo visitors as we were to see him he ire gate case his name as amoe amos HIU and arid sad said that he wo was 71 years old and had lived in the carvon about 20 eam 1113 1 house or hovel WELS waa a crude tepee of 0 board boards oer oser a small hole in the ground it was hardly big enough for one perron b it might be clawd as rood sized dog kennel his 1113 wardrobe waa was aa as meager as his house of a piece of dirty caras with a S hole cut in the tor for his head to pass through a ragged pair of overalls and a unique pair of shoes with ith soles of large larco pieces of cowhide about 15 inches long with aith the hal on the bottom side aide ard uppers apparently ut from old lubber tubber hoots I and laced to the soles with ith rawhide string strings it was about noon when the party this place and mr hill wa um invited to lunch he ire conversed freely among other things he be claimed to have gone through the oreen green riser censors on a raft mft taking P horse with him blin a feat which one who haa has ben been through the andow would be iusti justified fied in believing belle ring was impossible when asked about his occupation he said he lie had a few cattle to cire care for ard that in winter when he was not able to dig dic little ditches around his garden patches he goes down the river and pans pam rold from the aher sand and gravel grael iris his nearest postoffice post pont office 1 is linwood some 2 10 miles or more up the risca on hei rys fork over a rough mountain tr trail and vernal is 13 about 45 miles away lie packs his supplies from front either of these tons making two or three trips a year A short distance beloy below th hermita place the walls of tile canyon become a series of high rolling hills aed and soon after three clock ash ley falls was ils reached here the channel Is almost obstructed by huge boulders that haw have broken loose from the side walls but the stake of the river waa was too lov lo v to males an abrupt fall such as was mentioned by ashley danly and powell A landing wa mide a safe above the gift water and the tills falls were studied to in determine the best means of getting the boats by it was vms finally decided that they could be put through without lining lanin ll nin them so the boat man one at time on a schedule of 10 ral minutes apart went through ashley balla without trouble however every precaution for safety waa ww taken before the men started crell boatmen wore his life jat the hashes of the gmt A cre ere tightly closed and the tile ober members of ile c pa iiii r were stat boned cd below uie tall with lines ready reidy lor for an em the ten m anuta nuta schedule was adored beme be me iuie ft a projection of in the s all d the view from the stir tIrl pace place to sale we water below belin ant 1 ten teli i WA was dem de le m cd ed si at ff fc ic ent tor for rih uh man to get J just abai e cart creek nearly 1 nilles miles below ashley braai 11 a deball ed survey WM was mule of a brou a sec see ion of the canyon to study uj its pos aa a dam site mid wid at cut creek another catch of trout 25 23 thia is time was made milde ile uie the party topped stopped for lurah below cm creek the traveler Is U greatly impress impressed with the majesty of the canyon Ws wells which rise about 2000 amt abo bora uie tile riser carved into large nm gra and bul treves xyth vart gated color colors of rd red and spotted with green pine tree trees clinging to the tony stony steep sloped 1 suddenly tl ee ene walls break asay into roll ins huu hills forming an open area known as little hole which I 1 Is about a mile mje long iona ocrie creek enters enten from the south at ua its upper end nril arx little da elport creek also 2130 from the south cornel into the iwer liner end both of these creeks arc are very small the rl r paws from irole into another narrow cari canyon yon but the walli valls are nob not eo so high as before and they are more broken by r vines about half a mile aboe one of tbt thia ravine on the north elde aide of the river la is a ranchers cabin during the evening the owner came to vuu visit the camp requesting that a letter be taken tor for him to a place where it might be mailed hh his stay he warned the par party of bad raed ahad ah ad and ti told of the precautions necessary nece wary to albold an upset such aj as others had had who did not realize until it va was as too late what hat as before them the next altert afternoon won red creek was as reached it enters from the left ard drains a large area of hills its flow Is torrential as Is shown by the deb is s and mud along its bonka the tile water ater Is 13 red and the high witter oer manci through its canson gorge indicate a flood stace stage of 20 to 30 feet deep the channel Is 13 strewn with tree trees large boulders and red mud further evi dencel of 0 its force Is I 1 seen in the heritable lerl seri table dam of boulders that it haa has thrown out into green river extending almost enzely the he riser ard ord it against the hc or pott valt ef c UM tile wavon I 1 tile dam dain of au jmj e hs ints t ie ter in n the arher for or trun 0 d s stance t nce ord ard forms fornis rl 1 rapid 1 1 I en the vater cr finally tumbles 0 er the tile boulder cire atren chmel I camp was pitched at tl e head load cf this rapid and the ot the dav was spent in mao 13 fed ped 41 ic otard ard I 1 i a abe rapid tu to fin i vay way t rouf i it the 1 I e ar r ks u er sta ta tioren along 2 te tie rap d to gel ie pic turea as he boata canie flown the channel chosen by the bm men to be a good one for each boat waa put t through without liap lisp two of them scraped on rocks verv plainly aliu could have happened had the river been only a few fine inches iles lawer below the rough alp part a n of the hapli kt at conw stages 0 ot t the h 0 river the str stream earni into two channels chAn neU with the greater now in the lefthand left hand channel matway boatman goes ith the water but the rancher had pointed out the danger at the lower imer end of nil channel and the party to |