The Charles H. Spencer was tied to the shore at Lees Ferry and in 1915 driftwood from a flood lodged under the vessel. When the river level went down, the driftwood punctured the hull and the vessel sank in shallow water where its dim outline can still be seen today.
Charlie Spencer, also, could not get this country out of his system. He returned in the early 1960s when in his 90s with a scheme to mine rhenium, the rare metallic element that had clogged his original amalgamation process, but that by then was understood
