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Show Record there, which was twenty- four feet long and has a six foot beam. 5206 It was a flat bottom boat, equipped with a fourteen horsepower internal combustion engine and a submerged propeller. During the year 1909 I made several trips on the Green River with that boat. My first trip was about the middle of June, when I made a trip to Moab in that boat with two other men. A. I. Anderson accompanied us as far as his ranch on the lower Green River, as did also another man, who invited himself. No one beside Mr. Anderson, who 5207 left is at his ranch, had ever made that trip before. So far as the river was concerned we encountered practically no delay on this trip. We went down to the junction of the Green and Colorado and to a point about three miles below the junction, where there was a huge boulder and a heavy wave dike across the river. Not be-ing familiar with the country we left our boats and walked down and observed the first cataracts. I had never been there before. 5208 After looking things over, we returned to our boat. When we came to the slide on our journey up the Grand River it looked pretty swift for our boat; there was a side current coming over on the north side and Captain F. C. Roff, who piloted the boat, thought it was less trouble to go up through this side current. It was slow going through there because the boat and the current were so nearly the same speed, and we were probably five minutes in making that one hundred yards, but we went up the Slide with our boat and from there we went right on up. We did no towing and I have never 5209 towed on the river and I never at any time towed that boat on any subsequent trip. We encountered no river difficulty on the return journey from Moab. This trip, including the return trip upstream on the Green River was taken at the crest of the extreme high water. The water was so high that we had to follow the side of the channel to avoid the drift. We didn't get stuck on any sand bars. As I 5210 recall, our traveling time from Moab down to the junction of the rivers was five hours and we made about five miles an hour from the junction up to Green River. Our traveling time down the Green |
