Identifier: throughgrandcany00kolb (find matches)
Title: Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Kolb, E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson), b. 1876
Subjects: Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Publisher: New York : The MacMillan Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r journey; the 175-mile run to Blake or GreenRiver, Utah, a little west of south from Jensen. Tenmiles below Jensen was a ferry used by the auto andwagons. Here also was a ranch house, with a number ofpeople in the yard. We were invited to land and did so.They had been informed by telephone of our coming andwere looking for us; indeed they had even prepareddinner for us, hoping we would reach there in time.Not knowing all this, we had eaten our cold lunch half anhour before. The women were busy preserving fruitsand garden truck, and insisted on us taking two or threejars along. This was a welcome change to the driedfruit, which was one of our principal foods. These peoplemade the usual request — Drop us a post card if you get through. The memory of these people that we met on thisjourney will linger with us as long as we live. Theywere always anxious to help us or cheer us on our way. We passed a dredge that evening and saw a man atwork with a team and scoop shovel, the method being
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I opy • ■ o EACH BED WAS PLACED IN A RUBBER VND \ CANVAS SACK. P 0 rAKEN IN MARBLE CANYON. AN INLAND EXCURSION 91 to scoop up the gravel and sand, then dump it in an ironcar. This was then pulled by the horses to the top ofa derrick up a sloping track and dumped. A stream ofwater pumped up from the river mixed with the gravel,the entire mass descended a long zigzagging chute. Wepaused a few minutes only and did not examine the com-plicated process of separating the mineral from the gravel.This dredge had been recently installed. We campedearly, half a mile below the dredge. Emery had been feeling poorly all this day. Heblamed his indisposition to having eaten too manygood things when in Vernal — a break in training, as itwere. This was our excuse for a short run that day. Iplayed nurse and gave him some simple remedy from thelittle supply that we carried; and, after he was in hissleeping bag, I filled some hot-water bags for the firsttime on the trip, and soon had him feeling qu

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