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Show Record In 1925 I was again on the rivers between Greenriver and Moab. From 1906 until I went to Crescent I owned the ranch referred to in this case as the Wimmer ranch below Greenriver, except I sold it and the People didn't pay for it and I took it back. I operated it with three water wheels that turned by the current and had buckets on them delivering water to the ranch. A company from Denver came there and took a contract to put water on by another system of water not a success so it left me without 4742 water and I left the ranch. The ranch consisted of 351 acres of very fertile soil. I made trips from Greenriver to the ranch and from the ranch to Greenriver in the Marguerite. I built it for that purpose. I have made those trips in the spring. I don't know just how early, but any time in the spring when there wasn't any ice on the river and up until the latter part of November. I don't know whether I made a trip in December or not. I used to take my family out to Salt Lake to school. After they left the ranch I 4743 did not make the trips so often. I brought a government crow out about Thanksgiving time in 1914. It was the Richardson party. I have made trips to and have Greenriver in the Marguerite from my ranch every time I have wanted to unless there was ice on the river, and I don't think there was any ice beginning with March and ending with and including November. I would say that I had made as a minimum 50 round trips from my ranch to Greenriver from the time I built it until 1915. I made a trip with the Marguerite from Greenriver to Moab in 1909, about Thanksgiving, when I took a lot of business men around, 25 Salt Lake boosters. Mr. Howland was one of the crew. 4745 Leaving out the hauling trips in 1914, I have made three, possibly more, round trips to the junction. I took my family down once, Mr. Richardson once and two other engineers once as I recall now. I do not remember the date of the Richardson 692 1813 |