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Show Record Francis M. Shafer testified for defendant on direct ex-amination as follows: 5193- 5193 I reside at Moab, Utah, where I have been Post Master for about twelve years. I arrived in that section on of Utah about November 12 or 13, 1888. My elder brother built a raft at the mouth of Cisco Wash on the Colorado River, about thirty miles above Moab. The raft was six or seven feet wide and about twelve 5194 feet long. I am sixty- one years old and, in my boyhood days, had done a little boating in the Ohio River. My brother and I had a chest of carpenter tools, some small trunks, our bedding, a tent, material for a placer rocker, one hundred pounds of flour and other groceries - all aggregating a weight of at least five hundred pounds, loaded this cargo on to the raft, and then my brother and I rode on the raft down the Colorado River, our destination being 5195 the mouth of Castle Creek, located twenty or twenty- five miles above Moab. We intended to do some placer mining at the mouth of Castle Creek. As we came down the river the mouth of Castle Creek was covered with trees and brush and we passed on by without ob-serving it and kept going until we reached Nigger Bill Canyon, about three or four miles above Moab. By that time we satisfied ourselves that we had passed our intended destination and we went 5196 ashore, tied our raft up, and walked into Moab. We stayed at Moab over night and next morning came back to our raft. We then con-tinued on up the river to the mouth of Castle Creek, where we stayed overnight. Next morning we found a river boat in the willows there, re- called it, and put it in shape for use. It was about four feet wide across the top and fourteen or fifteen feet long, with one set of oars. We put the boat in the river and went back down to the mouth of Nigger Bill Canyon, where we transferred our cargo from the raft into this boat and then took the boat back up the river to the mouth of Castle Creek. With the exception of two rapids, one of which was just below Castle Creek and another at the 778 1899 |