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Show Record 5233 We pulled our boats up so there would be no danger from high water and carried the supplies thence overland by pack outfit. Our boats were loaded quite heavily and I would say that their draft was about ten inches or possibly twelve inches. They were fourteen feet long and had a beam of about three feet. I again returned to Green River in January of the next 5234 year. My next river trip was from Green River to Townsite Bottom in a row boat with Bill Coyle and others. We took with us nine 5235 hundred to one thousand pounds of supplies. This trip was taken about March, 1909. Later I made the trip from Townsite Bottom up-stream to Green River in that row boat. I would row and tow going 5236 upstream. In the latter part of April I went Mr. Oppenheimer in his motor boat called the Paddy Ross down as far Sheep Trail. We were supposed to meet Major Leeds and his party at the junction but had a little engine trouble and met them about ten miles above at what is called Sheep Trail. They had rowed down the Grand River and were coming up the Green in a row boat when we met them. I think we took three days coming upstream from Sheep Trail to a valve. Finally he made a new valve out of a pewter spoon and we went right along without any more trouble. 5237 I recall taking the trip in the Ida B when I accompanied Mr. Henry E. Blake as described by him in his testimony, and my recollection of that trip is substantially the same as described in Mr. Blake's testimony. On one of my trips with Mr. Blake we towed a row boat back up to Green River, and on one trip with Mr. Oppenheimer we took up a row boat with us. My recollection con-cerning a trip I made with Mr. Blake in the Utah, which was described by him in his testimony, is substantially in accord with his testimony. On that trip with Mr. Blake in the Utah I accom-panied him down to Townsite Bottom, where I got off the boat and his party went on to Moab. 5237 I have seen Mr. Blake take excursion parties with his boat 787 |