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Show THRILLING RIDE THROUGH RAPSBS rrr- . Canoe Trip of 370 Miles Down the Salmon River, at a Speed of 110 Miles a Day, is Made by an Ogden Man Who Rejci--That He is Alive. District Engineer A. T. Mitchelsoti hns relumed from a two weeks" trip to the Salmon river country, where ho made, a reconnolssauce of tho Salmon river for the put pose of determining whether the proposed line of the Oil-more Oil-more &. Pittsburg railroad would Interfere In-terfere with water power sites along the river. n Mr. Mltchelson states that be went down the river In a canoe a distance of 370 miles, but that he would not attempt the trip again for all the mon ey Uncle Sam has. Tho experience wns Interesting, but thrilling, and the i-nglncer says he Is mighty glad to say ho is alive. Other men. railroad engineers, engi-neers, who In Ihe past attempted to make the same Dip, are now somewhere some-where in tho Pacific ocean, having ' been drowned and their bodies carried away. He says that the distance of 370 miles was covered 1 iv tho remarkably short time of three and a half days, making an average of about 110 miles a day. Tho canoe fairly shot through the great canyon gorges through which the river passes, leaping oer cataracts and foaming rapids that were fairly mad with rushing waters, lie felt that at any moment the boat would be dashed to pieces on the great boulders. The river is from Soil feet to l'ou feet wide and from 2" to 75 feet deep The canyon gorges irr places are 300 feet hlfc'b. the cliffs on either side being be-ing perpendicular. The shooting of tho rapids was grand, but required all the nerve possible to command. His hair stood on end as he dashed through the rapids, barely missing the huge lioublers. Mr. Mltchelson says he and his companions com-panions balled water from their leaking leak-ing boal as they had never bailed before. be-fore. As the canoe passed through rough places It almost filled with water, wa-ter, and several times would have gone to tho bottom of the stream had ! it not been quickly balled out. Tho shooting of rapids may be rare si:ort for some, the engineer slates but no more canoe trips on the Salmon river for him. Mr. Mltchelson pays the contemplated contem-plated railroad will not Interfere In any way with the possible water power pow-er sites, of which there are ninny in, the "To miles' distance ho traversed. The possibilities for water power on the Salmon river, he says, are almost unlimited, anj that it Is no exaggeration exaggera-tion to say that the waters of the stream may be harnessed and turned into sufllclent electric power to move all tbo machinery of the country. Besles splendid water power facilities facili-ties along the river, there Is a fine belt of timber skirting the stream. An experienced boatman, and the supervisor super-visor of tbe Salmon national forest, accompanied Mr. Mltchelson. Tho boatman had traversed the river before, be-fore, but ho said ho would never attempt at-tempt it again with the river so high. Tho water is nineteen feet hl:her , thau in years at this time of year. |