The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-02
INTERIOR. DEPARTMENT
BUILDS A MEMORIAL
TO INTREPID PIONEER

consisting Of ten men In four boats,
had been ahoat since their start from
Green River City on May "a. Two OF
the boats were decked. forming water
tight compartments.
Now, after three months OF labor
ious battle with rapids and waterfalls
and the still more laborious explor-
alton of innumerable side canyons,
they had reached. with scant provl-
sions. the supreme test Of strength and
courage.
what falls there are" says his
diary, I'VE know not; what rocks be-
set the channel. we know not: what
walls rise on the river. we know not.
All, well, we may conjecture many
things. The men talk as cheerfully
as ever; jests are banded about freely
this morning; but to me the cheer is
somber and the jests are CHASTITY
The following day comes the first OF
many tests. The diary goes on:
First Of Many Upsets.
About II o'clock we hear q great
roar ahead. and approach 1t very cau-
tiously. The sound grows louder and
louder as we run. and at last we find
ourselves about long, broken fall,
with lodges and pinnacles Of rock OBJ
structing the river. There is descent
Of perhaps seventy-flve or eighty feet
In third OF a mile, and the rushing
waters break into great waves on the
rocks, and lash themselves into mad,
white foam. We can land just above,
but there is no foothold on either side
by which we can make portage.
at is nearly thousand feet to the
top of the granite, so II will be i'm
possible to carry our boats around,
though we can climb to the summit up
side gulch, and, passing along mile
or two, can descend to the river. This
we find on examination; but such
portage would be impracticable for US,
and we must run the rapid or aban-
don the river. There is no hesitation.
We step into our boats. push off, ano
away we go, first on smooth but swift
water, then we strike CLASSY wave,
and. ride to It's top, down again into
the trough, up again on higher wave,
and down and up on waves higher
and still higher, until we strike one
Just as it curls back and breaker
rolls over our little boat.
"Still, on we speed, shooting past
projecting rocks, till the little boat is
caught In whirlpool and spun around
several times. At last we pull out
again into the stream.
Hurled back from rock. now on
this side, now on that, we are carried
into an eddy, in which we struggle for
a few minutes, and are then out again,
the breakers still rolling over u.s."
How Bright Angel Was Named.
The many thousands who have de-
seconded the Bright Angel trail at the
Grand canyon will be interested in
this entry under date Of August 49,
1.-THE little atfluent whihc we have
discovered here is clear, beautiful
creek-or river, as 1t would be termed
in this western country where streams
are not abundant. We have named one
stream away above in honor of the
great chic Of the Bad Angels and.
as this is IN beautiful contrast to that,
we conclude to name It Bright Angel"
On August II he writes:
at is especially cold in the rain to-
night. The little canvas we have is
rotten and useless; the rubber pom
chos with which we started from
Green City have all been lost; more
than half of the party Is without hats,