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Show Record I tried to slide my boat over the ice. The river wasn't entirely frozen, there would be a strip maybe a mile or two long frozen over solid, then a strip of open water for a quarter of a mile. It wasn't safe to go upon it, so I didn't go, and stayed there for a month until it was safe. Aside from that I encountered no other difficulties or obstruction. William Hyde testified on cross examination as follows: 4446 I did not exactly find the channel in the same place the second time I went up the Colorado as I did when I went up and down the previous year. It changes. In spite of that I did not get on any sand bars. Anybody will accidently run up against a sand bar sometime, which I have done at different times, but have 4447 not had any trouble. On my first trip from Moab to the junction and back, I claim I did not run onto sand bars over two or three times. I rowed my boat most of the way up; lots of places I 4448 towed it. I recall a place on the Grand River where there is a slide off the bank that almost fills the channel. It is on the Colorado. I rowed my boat right through it. On my second trip down the Green river. I observed two or three small rapids just below the Town of Greenriver. They 4449 did not give us any trouble. We did not ground at any place. I do not remember getting on any sand bars on the Green River. A man trapping along down those rivers will get on sand bars when he is setting his traps. when I was moving my camp down the river I kept in the current of the river as much as I could to avoid sand bars. In my trapping operations I make my camp and set my traps 4450 and stay there or four days. A man trapping with row boats cannot travel up and down the river more than three or four miles a day. The work is toohard. While I was on the Green River I saw a cow outfit about 75 miles Greenriver who had some boats. They wore 642 1763 |