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Show Record boat to Moab. When I went down to Valentines, I was paid a little for that trip. I had my sister with me. I had taken a great many trips up and down the river before that trip. I knew I was going to bring quite a party back with me on that trip, and not with standing my knowledge of the difficulties of going down the river and the 4240 difficulties of coming up the river, I took my sister along. I have done very little prospecting. During the time I was at Greenrier, between 1886 and 1916, I was working at the Rio Grande Western Railway round- house at broken times; usually my time on the Green River was at carpenter work, and putting up pumping plats, irrigation plants, and building water wheels, building boats for other people and helped with construction of the larger motor boats. Those boats, both row boats and power boats, were for other people and were used on the Green River. 4244 On the trip in the Undine from the head of the cataracts up to Moab, I think we were on the river two and a half or three days. We were longer than that going down on the Green River. Familiarity with the Green and Grand Rivers in going from Moab to the junction and from Greenriver to the junction is of value to one going on those rivers, because you get kind of a system for judging the river, gaging the channel, the distance to sand bars, the depth of the water, the width of channels, and the eye becomes 4246 trained to observe those things. From that experience you are enabled to avoid difficulties in navigation. The more experience you have on either one of those rivers, and the better and more recent knowledge you have of either, the more readily you will be able to navigate and the fewer difficulties you will have. The high water that comes from melting of snow in each year, scours the channels of these rivers, cleans them out in places 4247 and builds big bars in other places at the same time. It is not my experience that the high spring water leaves the channels up and down the Green and Colorado Rivers in 608 |