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Show Record named Moskin, Kimball, and Turner doing work on the river. I don't remember how often I saw them but they had boats there that they were running. I saw boats going up and down stream on the occasion of my visits to the river. I don't remember who they were. Going up stream they rowed their boats a good deal of the way. Over the heavy water they had to tow for a ways, where they did not get the advantage of back current in the riffles. In 1916 I was running cattle on the west side of the river, at Tickaboo and Good Hope bars. At that time I took a short trip up the river with Mr. Turner. We went from the mouth of Red 5144 Canyon to Hite, and returned. Mr. Turner brought three or four hundred pounds of supplies for the cattle outfit. I paid him for his services in boating. In going up stream on that trip most of the way we had our sails up. We sailed a good deal of the way, the biggest part of the way. I do not remember of running into any 5145 sand bars. We towed and rowed over a riffle or two. We towed and rowed up the Trachyto rapid. I never got out of the boat. He had hip boots on. He got into the water slightly. He just hugged the shore going up those rapids. We didn't have any trouble with sand bars, he knew the channel well. Charles A. Gibbons testified on cross examination as follows: 5146 I took Mr. Stanton's stuff in on the first trip to Hite. On the second trip I took it in below Hanson Creek. Wilson Creek sounds like the place. I managed the building of a road from Greenriver to the point where we went to the river. Prior to that time there was a bad road from Greenriver to Hanksville. There were several places 5147 where I improved that road for Mr. Stanton. It is the same road used today between Hanksville and Greenriver. The one I built for Stanton, that is, most of the way. I just changed this road in placer to avoid deep sand. The old road was there before Stanton 5148 started in. 769 |