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The fall from the mouth of Gray C any0n to the city of <br />River is 41 feet, or 3.73 ;f et to t1ie nine. <br />OTHER EXPEDMON5 <br />Another voyage down the Green River from Green Riser, i <br />to Greer. River, Utah, was made in August, 1926, by a party ca: <br />ine of Webster B. Todd, of New York; M. Ogden West, of Chi <br />F. LeMoyne. Page, of Pittsburgh; H. E. Blake, jr., of Monti <br />Utah; and C. H. Hale, of Manila, Utah. This trip was made <br />vacation outing with two of the boats used by the Geological Si <br />party in 1922. One of theni lodged on a partly submerged ro <br />midstream in the Canyon of Lodore and, after many hours of <br />effort to dislodge it, was abandoned. <br />Mr. Page "in describing this scene says: <br />The high, confining malls which had seemed so beautiful aid grand <br />or so before now almost drove me mad, * * * but I could see no 21 <br />tage in remaining there, hoping for some miracle to pull the boat off the <br />She was on there, and on there to stay, and nothing short of a steel cayA <br />plenty of rope to string across the rapids to hand-aver-sand it above tke <br />out to the boat would get her off. So with heavy- hearts we broke our loaf <br />in Lodore, the canyon which always seems to exact such heavy toll. <br />When the party reached Jensen, Messrs, Page and Nest Ie <br />The others continued to Green River, Utah, where the rernq <br />boat was placed in storage, and the party disbanded. <br />Below the town of Green River, Utah, many boat trips have. <br />made on the river. The town is on a transcontinental re?i <br />and is the most convenient starting place for all expedition=.' <br />the Colorado River, into which the Green empties at a point <br />117 miles below the town. It was also considered in then <br />nineties a possible shipping point for the products of the'' <br />Galles, which lies along the Colorado River about 65 mile ups <br />from the mouth of the Green. For this purpose, how ever, I <br />contemplated that the two rivers between the two places shl-il <br />used as a highway for freight and passenger boats. After ZN <br />-- unsuccessful attempts. had been made to carry out this plfn <br />the steamers The flndihe, major Powell, and Cliff Dwei}ernamed the City of Moab), appeal was made to Congress to. <br />the streams for navigation. As a result of a provision i-, 16 <br />and harbor act of March 3,1909the channel conditions of `he <br />between the towns of Green River and Moab were in-,6 <br />ead.; i unfavorable report was made by Assistant Enb reer <br />gulches, of the Corps of Engineers of the War Department i. <br />r <br />rniwa States Bureau of Reclamation. made a r, <br />includrrig the etaetch of the G tea River below Green R;4 , <br />rt aRue, a livdrau'ie e ; L <br />m 1p1? and again in 1921 E. C. <br />• PwsonstDDM=iC&tloa <br />mAra AAA iROFILES <br />55 <br />i-,i;tod States Geological Survey, made studies of this stretch; in <br />t! E. T. McKnight and S. S. Nye, geologists of the Geological <br />?;. . I made a geologic examination of this portion of the stream: <br />Ord in 192S W. G. Hoyt, a hydraulic engineer of the Geological <br />ev, made additional investigations of the channel and other <br />rhvsiographic conditions along the stream. Later in the fall of 1928 <br />)L. and Mrs. Glenn R. Hyde, seeking adventure, left Green River, <br />?'!eh, to boat through the canyons of the Colorado, but they were <br />i;,ver seen again after pusbing off from the foot of the El Tovar <br />;; ftll. <br />MAPS AND PROFILES <br />Topograpliic maps and profiles based on instrumental surveys of the <br />Green River from Green River, Wyo., to its mout.b, a-distance of 504.3 <br />are now ara']able, also a reconnaissance plan and profile of M <br />:.!,es of the river above Fontenelle, Wyo., and standard topographic <br />;zaps covering the beadwaters of the stream. <br />The standard topographic maps are those of the Gros Ventre and <br />Fremont Peak quadrangles, printed in three colors on a scale of 2 <br />ales to 1 inch, with a contour interval of 100 feet. These maps can <br />i;e purchased from the Director, United States Geological Survey, <br />0,ishington, D. C., at 10 cents each. <br />The reconnaissance plan and profile of the 98 miles above Fontenelle <br />consists of five sheets lettered A to E and shown on Plates I to Vin <br />Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 396, obtainable from the <br />Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, .Wash- <br />inzton, D. C., for 50 cents. The horizontal scale is 2 inches to I mile, <br />and the vertical scale is 40 feet to 1 inch. These are based on General <br />l,nnd Office plats surveyed in 1909. <br />The results of the work done by the Geological Survey party in 1922 <br />1)ubhshed on I6 sheets (10 plans, 6 profiles), lettered A to P. The <br />"ale is 2 inches to 1 mile, with a contour interval of 30 feet on the <br />1',d and 5 feet on the water surface. In addition to the topography <br />"f the canyons and the location of the streams, the plans show all land <br />dwelling houses, roads, and other artificial features. These <br />`l<iis are obtainable from the Director, Lrnited States Geological <br />?-vey• Washington, D. C., at 10 cents each, or $1.60 for the set. <br />T1e plan and profile of the river below Green River, Utah, is pub- <br />`L''Pd on 9 sheets (6_plans, 3 profiles), lettered A to I and shown as <br />dates VIII to XXI of Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 396, <br />r'',thizable as indicated above; _ <br />lshile the work was being done on the Green River in'1922 similar <br />`0rl as done on the Yampa. River. Five sheets 3 lens 2 rofiles <br />t <br />o those of the Green River, slio t• the data 1'or the Ya -pa -t-- <br />om <br />tpq 1th t0 & point i11 miles-lljl5traam..:T?IB_k are also obtainable <br />the Direct .. 7? <br />or of the ,.rated States Geological Survey at 10 Bents <br />i 3-eet, or 50 cents-for- the set-