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Show 616 I don't remember of seeing anyone along the river." R. 1489. We stopped at Hite on the south trip and tom Humphreys was there. Hite is 162 miles above Lees Ferry. While working on that stretch of the river he saw a large flat- bottom boat of the Edison Company; " I believe it had a stern wheel on it; they were hauling supplies from Lees Ferry up to Mr. Fowler's camps." Which he believed was at the Crossing of the Fathers. R. 1489- 1490. " As I remember," it was about thirty feet long, with ten or twelve foot beam. He doesn't know the draft. When they got to Lees Ferry, the Edison Company had a truck to meet them, and " we loaded our supplies in it, what we had left, started out; we got about ten miles, and the truck broke down, and two of the men walked out to Conner's (?) trading post, phoned in to Flagstaff, and had another truck come out and get us. " We went in to Flagstaff. Then the party broke up. That was the end of that trip." R. 1490. The next time he was on the Green River was in 1922. Mr. K. W. Trimble was in charge of the party, which started at Greenriver. Wyoming, and continued to Greenriver, Utah. The same type of boats as used before, the Galloway type boats, being the same size and with the same draft, approximately, were used on this trip. R. 1490- 1491. The members of the party included Bert Loper, head boatman; John Clogaton, cook; Mr. Woolley, of the Water Research branch; Mr. Stoner, of the Utah Power and Light; Mr. Reside, the geologist; Mr. Blake was boatman, " and |