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Show Record Between 1902 and 1914 I didn't have very much boating experience, but I had had a lot of boating experience before I ever saw the Green River. My experience not only included what I have testified to here but many years prior experience on the Alleghany River, Arkansas River, the Ohio River and a number of others. My experience on thos rivers was in row boats. I have also had some experience on steam boats. A. L. Chaffin testified for defendant on direct examination 4899 as follows: I reside at Kanesville, Utah. I am manager of the Wonderland irrigation Company, putting in a dam. I am brother of Lou 4900 Chaffin, who has testified in this case. I am 44. My first trip on the Colorado River was in 1898 or 1899. I was living at Teasdale at that time and went to the mouth of Hanson Creek and crossed the river and went down the river a mile to the Moquie Bar. My brothers, Lou Chaffin and George Chaffin, were working the bar at that time. I was there about four months. I think I went in October or November of 1898 and left in the 4901 spring of 1899. During my stay there five men were working on the Moquie bar. Our supplies came to the mouth of Hanson Creek and was boated down and across the river to the Moquie bar about a mile and a half in a row boat about 16 feet long and 4 feet wide. It had no power. We rowed and poled the boat and did some towing. We were using two teams and we had to have grain hauled in for them. I would say a half a dozen wagon loads of supplies were brought to the mouth of Hanson Creek. Two wagon loads usually made about three boat loads. During that period we went up to Mike Lyons on the California bar, a distance of about three miles, one Sunday morning visiting and came back that evening using the same boat. We had just the one boat. That winter we took a trip down the river as far as Moquie 723 |