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Show Record William Hyde testified for defendant on direct examination 4432 as follows: I live at Monticello, Utah. I have lived in Bluff, Utah. 4433 I first went there about 40 years ago, about 1890. I lived there two or three years. I am 53 years old. While I lived at Bluff those three years I saw boats taken down by miners from Bluff to the river and put in the river. I have seen moners with their boats and supplies start down, pos- 4434 sibly 10 or 12, possibly more. I don't know the exact number, but I have seen a good many boats go down. I also saw carpenters building boats there. I had an experience on the Colorado River 7 or 8 years 4435 ago. My pardner and I went on a trip down the river from Moab in two row boats, one 16 feet by 4 feet and the other 14 feet by 3 1/ 2 feet. We did not have any motors. We were on a trapping expedi-tion We went down in Cataract Canyon about opposite Henry Moun- 4436 tain We went through four or five rapids in Cataract Canyon, possibly more. They were big rapids. I was in Cataract Canyon a little over a month and took my boats down there. Coming back 4437 we brought our boats up the cataracts and back up to Moab. I left Moab the fore part of November and come back the fore part of the following February. I took my supplies with me for the whole trip. We did not buy any supplies after leaving Moab. We took all of our supplies and all of our camp out it and everything. I had trouble 4438 getting back up Cataract canyon. Going down I led my boat along the edge of the shore. I pulled it and packed it most of the way back. I lined the boat down. We got some furs and we took them back with us in the boat. After we got to Moab I shipped some of my furs to Denver and sold part of them in Grand Junction. I had a pretty successful trapping expedition. As to the kind of furs, we get 4439 cats, fox, coyotes and lots of beaver. While I was on that trip a man from Colorado passed me on the river. He came down from Colorado somewhere. Then I saw 640 |
