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Show Record cars in case we encountered engine trouble. In response to question propounded by the Special Master Mr. Blake testified: The place I have referred to as Woodruff is at Foot Bottom. some six or eight miles above Fort Bottom; it was a large bottom that had been squatted on by a surveyor named Robert Foot, who expected to make a fruit ranch there and built a two story frame house, the lumber for which was rafted down the river from the town of Green River or from the ranch; he rafted the lumber down the river. Henry E. Blake testified on redirect examination as follows: 5228 I believe Moab is recognized having one of the earliest growing seasons of any section of Utah. The fruits and vegetables ripen at practically the same time as at Green River, or possibly a little earlier; Moab is better protected from winds and of any-thing is a little the earliest. I know that the Moab season is a mouth earlier than Monticello. Henry E. Blake, Jr., who has testified in this case is my son and he went with me on the September, 1909 trip when he was thirteen years old. Albert I. Anderson testified for defendant on direct ex-amination as follows: 5230 I reside at Oakland, California, and first went to Green River, Utah, in 1908. I am 74 years old and after arriving at 5231 Green River took my first river trip in row boats. We desired to investigate for oil certain ground lying eighteen or twenty miles west of Miller's Canyon, located right at Townsite Bottom on the Green River. There were four of us in our party and we went from to Town of Green River down to the mouth of Miller's Canyon with two row boats, each carrying a load of about nine hundred pounds. 5232 We arranged for a pack outfit with four or five horses to meet us at the mouth of Miller's Canyon, from which point we could go over-land eighteen or twenty miles to the land we were interested in. |