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Show 165 ( tlie the ) purpose of launching a boat on the Green ( Elver River- River ) and investigating the possibility of river trade ( be- be ) tween Greenriver and Moab , Utah . ( Vol . 30 , _ p . 5205 . ) That year he constructed a boat , the Ida By , 24 feet long , ( 6-foot 6foot ) beam , flat ( bottomed bottonied ) , equipped . with a ( 14-horsepower 14horsepower ) ( internal-combustion internalcombustion ) engine . ( Vol . 30 , p . 5205 , 5206 . ) The Ida B cost 1,500 . ( Vol . 30 , p . 5233 . ) This boat was ( wrecked Areched ) below ( Wimmer Wimmer's Wimmers ) ranch . ( Vol . 30 , p . 5222 . ) He later ( con- con ) structed a boat called ( The Vie ) ( Utah Mali ) at a cost of ( from from- from ) 75 to 100 . He used the engine of the Ida B . The ( TJtali Utah ) was abandoned about five miles below Greenriver and allowed to rot . ( Vol . 30 , p . 5223 . ) He launched another boat in the year 1927 . This boat was also ( wrecked wreelked ) . < ( See photograph No . 11 , . Exhibit 77 . ) The cost of this boat was ( between betveen ) 300 and 400 . ( Vol . 30 , p . 5225 . ) Blake appears to have made very few trips ( for for- for ) compensation . One was an experimental trip , ( when vk1hen ) he transported 1,000 pounds of peaches from Moab to ( Greeiiriyer Greenri-ver Greenriver ) . ( Vol . 30 , p . 5213 . ) Blake . accompanied ( Winimer Wirnmer ) on a trip of Salt Lake ( City City- City ) boosters . ( Vol . 30 , p . 5212 . ) ( A- A ) ( significant significai5t ) fact in connection with this river party is that all of the supplies for the party vere hauled down to ( Wim- Wim ) ( mer iner ) ( 's s 7s ) ( rancli ranch ) in wagons and there loaded on the boat . After three ( unsuccessful -unsuccessful unsuccessful ) attempts , Mr . Blake has . abandoned ( river ri-ver river ) navigation for newspaper work . |
