Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1928, Page 15

* , although suffering greatly, I was able EXPLORERS ENTER CANYON OF YAMPA Boats Proceed Slowly Along River Traversing Mysteri- ous Colorado Area. This is the second of a series of articles by A. G. Birch, leader of the first expedition to have explored suc- cessfully the Yampa River Canyon, in Colorado, cne of the last “blind spots” on the map of the United States. BY A. G. BIRCH. iy e Star and the North Boeclal ) hicen Newspaper Alliance. DENVER, Colo., September 24.—Onur River cxpedition reached Cra Colo., “th* end of steel,” Saturday nig! Angust 8. A crowd of several hundred persons l.rned out to greet us. A wecl previous I had visited Craig and comideted arrangements for trans- porting ~ur boats, by motor truck, te Lily Pa:\, 85 miles west, whers the ‘Yampa !liver enters the canyon. Our pity—Charley Mace, Fred Dun- ham, Bzt Moritz and myself—were up early Si¥iay morning and down in the railroad Yards by 6 o'clock. We hiW a véry rough country to tra- verse—p %t of it without a road—so ‘t ‘was nec ry to fasten the boats se-| curely t%, the truck. This we did with heavy cfiins. By 8 a.m. we were under way. TRv first 60 miles of our journey ‘were ov”* the Victory Highway, the fine automolfle road that connects Denver with Saft Lake City. Then we turneo abruptly ' north into the wild Blue Moun- tain country, where the. road became little mc¥e than a trail. Here, owing to the widl& of our load, we had to stop half a dizen times on sharp curves and wield a wick on the rock bank to make room to. squeeze by. Fortunately tle rock wa# only soft sandstone. Skirt Deep Canyons. Pinally the rcad ended altogether at & deserted Mormon ranch. Throughout the remaining 10 miles we had to pick our way as best we could—over moun- tainsides, through gulches—even plow- ing along by main force through dense thfcket.s of scrub cedar. At one spot wc were forced to creep along for nearly a quarter of a mile within 10 feet of the brink of a 500-foot deep canyon. It was after 4 o'clock in the afternoon when we reached the Yampa River in ily Park. This is a fairly flat, sage- Jrush-covered expanse—several miles in extent—in the heart of high moun- tains, where the Little Snake River, flowing southwest from Wyoming, joins the Yampa. The park, once settled by |. Mormons from Utah, is named after the Utah State flower, the sago lily. We saw none of these plants, however, while in the valley. The Yampa River here—as through- out its whole extent—has a pronounced grayish-yellow color, probably derived from the beds of yellow sandstone through which its flows. The water is 80 heavily colored that rocks two inches under the surface are invisible. We did not relish drinking this unlovely fluid for the duration of cur trip, but there ‘was no help for it. ‘Through Lily Park the river meanders about in the sand, sometimes a quarter of a mile wide. My surprise was very great to find that. owing to the worst drought in years, the water in the Yam- pa had failen three feet in the last week. "rhls was very serious, lusl it left beds of jagged.rocks exposed many places. But the full seriousness of this was aotce to be revealed until several T, Launch Boats on Yampa. We launched the boats at once and piled our sla;"pua aboard. A score of persons, in flivvers, had followed us out from Craig to see the start of our ex- tion.. One of the iss Louise emper—a real ‘“‘cowgirl” as given two catsup bottles, filled with river water, and asked to christen our boats. ‘The boat the two photographers occu- was christened “Leakin’ Lena.” other was dubbed “Prickly Heat, commanded by Capt. Scratch.” to get a picture from a short 1 borrowed a cow- puncher’s broncho. The animal was far too wild, bn:ever. fo:] a :-wr: egews- paper man and promptly bucked me off. ded in a mass of boulders. the base of my spine upon a sharp rock. For an hour and a half I! ‘was paralyzed from head to feet. Then. to get into the boat, and we pushed out into the Yampa Rivér at 6:10 p.m. ‘This start was merely to see how th boats would act, and, finding they leaked considerably, we went only two miles downstream before we pulled ashore and made camp on a sandspit. We filled the boats with water to speed the swelling shut of all cracks between the planking. That evening was one of the most gorgeous I have even known—a velvet sky of deepest blue, filled to bursting with great, flaming stars; a crescent moon, transforming the muddy river into dull silver, and a gentle breeze of caressing warmth . Start for Gorge. All the next day—Monday, August 20 ~—we let the boats continue to soak up. evening we were joined by Fray Baker, a young cattleman, who has a ranch a few miles south of the Yampa's rim, about midway of the canyon. ‘There are only two places through- out the entire length of the Yampa gnr? where one may get into or out ! of the chasm. At every other point the walls are too sheer to be climbed. Baker was to pack a fresh supply of food into the canyon for us at one of | these places, and was to have two of | his cowpunchers ride on horseback | along the rim, trying to keep track of us. We had a system of signals, using tftrlzht-colored flags, to report our wel- are. - Tuesday morning we were up at| dawn. The night had been very cold and there was a heavy frost. We got breakfast, baled the water out of the | boats, packed our equipment and put | off from shore at 7 am. We said good- by to Fray Baker there. 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Hilleary 815 Fifteenth Street Main 4792 Miss Byrne tatives: Representatives: Miss Lomaz THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, entering the canyon; but, owing to the very low water, we had to get overboard a score of times and pull the boats off sandbars, so we made slow progress. However, by 9:30 o'clock the sheer, red sandstone walls of the gorge's mouth were rising 2,000 feet high directly in front of us. and from the gloom of the defile we could hear, dimly, the roar of rapids. At least we were at th~ .eal begin- ning of our journey—upon the thresh- hold of the unknown, where no man, so far as recorded, had been before us. (Copyright, 1028. by North American News- paper Alliance.) = —— Coal Range Explodes. An explosion occurred in a coal range in the home of Harry Mickey, colored, 2134 Thirteenth street, early yesterday afternoon when a member of the family started a fire. Mrs. Amanda Mickey, colored, 49 years old, | & became excited, fainted and fell to the floor. She soon recovered. Not much damege resulted from the explosion. To relieve the famine conditions as the result of crop failures the govern- ment of Honduras has imported 2,000 sacks of corn for distribution in the affected areas. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER SPEAKS Richard J. Davis of ChicagoI De- livers Address at First Church. A lecture on “Christian Science, a Reasonable and Practical Religion,” was delivered in the First Church of Christ Scientist _ yestera: afternoon by Richard J. Davis, C. S., of Chicago. Mr. Davis is a member of the board of lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ Scientist, in_Boston, Mass. He was introduced by William G. Biederman, first reader of First Church, under whose auspices the lecture was iven. “Christian Science declares that all may think, and think freely about God, because there is just one mind, the divine, intelligent, and self-existent cause of the universe—and that mind is the mind of man, of all mankind," said the speaker. “Let us consider in the light of reason what Christian Scicn‘ce teaches regarding God and His eatio “First of all, it is obvious that we, every one of us here, exist. We are conscious of our identity or entity. We are aware, too, that there is a crea- tion, an infinite creation or universe, and this universe, including our own identity, is the effect of an intelligent; self-existent cause. Reason tells us. too, that there can be but one universe. Indeed the very word universe indi- cates one. We are positively aware that this universe reveals intelligence. Indeed, only an intelligent cause could have evolved it. 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