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Show Record there to Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah, and them into bluff alone. 4601 I concluded I would bring my family to Bluff so I went back and brought my family to Bluff and Dandy Crossing. I took a team from Bluff to Dandy Crossing because it was easier to go that way than it was to go in a boat. A boat would not have answered the purpose at all, because I wanted to go up into Utah, central Utah. Harry Taylor Howland testified for defendant on direct 4603 examination as follows: I reside at Greenriver, Utah. I am employed by the Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. I first went to Greenriver in 1893 from Crested Buttes, Colorado. 4604 Upon my arrival at Greenriver a party named Spry and myself took a prospecting and trapping trip down the Green River to a point close to the junction. We got fox, cat, beaver and coyote furs. Our boat was 16 or 81 feet long, 3 feet at the bottom and about 4 feet at the top. We brought our skins back up 4605 to Greenriver in our boat. On that trip we went down in December or January, during the trapping season in the winter. We were about 60 days on the trip. I next made a trip in August, 1894 from Greenriver to Moab. My father was with me on that trip. After we got to Moab my father went home overland to Denver and I trapped the river back from Moab to the junction and them up the Green River to Green-river City. I got furs similar to those I obtained on my first trip. I took my furs into Greenriver on my boat and shipped them out to market. The boat on that trip was 16 or 18 feet long, about the same as the other. In 1895 I made a trip from Greenriver to Moab. I took a druggist from Denver by the name of Bailey, and my father and a man named Jack Lawrence as extra boatman. I received compen-sation from Mr. Bailey for that trip. The object of the trip was hunting, fishing and taking in the scenery. Mr. Bailey and my father just went to Moab. My partner and I came back down the |