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Show Record freight down the river on the Marguerite. Outside of the Salt lake boosters, I hauled on the Marguerite 4828 as passengers Mr. Richardson, who went down to the junction and back. We were two days going down from the ranch and three days coming back. I do not recall the stage of the water. We had plenty of water though at that time. 4829 With the Marguerite we could make the trip to the head of the cataracts in fourteen hours running time, including all stops. That is the down trip. That would be two days, seven hours oach. It takes at least one- third longer to come up. The Richardson trip was made in 1914. The same years I went down later. Then I made a round trip to Moab in the Mar- 4830 guerite which was called the booster trip. We traveled right along on that trip. We were six days I believe from Greenriver to Moab. At night the whole party would land and camp. I didn't come back with the boat. The party came back by rail from Moab. My boat and 4831 crew came back around the river. I went overland to Greenriver. I did not go back that way because I could go quicker that way than on the boat. That was not the reason. They had gone through the river to look at it; that had been accomplished; what we went for was accomplished, as far as those parties were concerned. I went on that trip only to see that the party got through. I knew the boys would get the boat back alright. It did not take me more than a day to get back. I don't knew how many days it took the boat to get back to Greenriver. The other trips, two of them, I made for the Marlin Oil Company. I made two round trips to Moab and then I went to Moab and stopped and went out by automobile, making two round trips and a half a trip. It took us five days to make the round trip to Moab with 4833 the Marlin party. There were two Marlin trips. On the first trip I had five people and we could not take them all in one boat with an 711 |
