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Show Record Mr. Turner on the river. The Colorado man was trapping. He had some furs when I saw him. He had a light row boat. Turner was Trapping. I did not see any other boats. I do not think we had 4440 any trouble with sand bars, very little. If a person doesn't follow the current of the river, he will strike a sand bar. I have run onto sand bars when I was not watching where I was going. When I was paying attention to where I was going and watching the progress of my boat, I did not have any trouble with sand bars, whether going up or going down. I had experience trapping on the Green River the following year. I trapped for beaver. I started from the town of Greenriver with a pardner and went down to the mouth of the Green 4442 and then up the Colorado to Moab. We left Greenriver about the 1st of October and went out at Moab in March the following year. We had a successful trip. We were on the river from the 1st of October until March all the time. We spent the winter trapping. After we arrived at Moab we shipped out furs to the State of Utah 4443 at Salt Lake City. We carried our beaver skins in our boats. On that trip, about 75 miles below the Town of Greenriver I got froze in the river. I couldn't travel for about 30 days. Outside of that I had no other trouble. I laid in camp about 30 days. The river was frozen only about 30 days then the ice broke. That was an exceptionally cold winter. The year previous the river did not freeze over. We had a little mush ice running down the river but it didn't freeze up. We were in Cataract Canyon that winter. I don't know what happened up on the Green River that year. We come up the Colorado and went out at Moab in February. We encountered nothing but a little mush ice. When we got to the junction the water was flowing down the Green River. There was no evidence as far as we could see of the river being frozen there in February. At the time we were frozen in for a month, I would say the ice was about an inch, inch and a half or two inches thick. |