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Show Record and engaged in trapping. As a general rule I used a boat pointed at both ends; it was not exactly flat bottom, it was pointed, and we always poled our boats. I didn't use oars and would just paddle whenever we would cross the river to get into shallow water 5290 and eddies. I have trapped down the river as far as the upper rapids, between four and five miles below the mouth of the Green and I have walked down by the rapids. I have been down the river to the rapids several times, probably four or five or six times down that far, poling and paddling my boat downstream and poling my boat back upstream. On those expeditions I obtained furs and brought them back up to Moab in my boat. We never did any towing 5291 except when we would get tired of poling. It was not because we couldn't pole, but it was a little rest for us to get out where there were bars or sand; we would maybe tow along a little piece, although I could have poled along it just as fast. The only trouble I had in going around the Slide was that for a bout fifty or one hundred feet I couldn't tough bottom with my pole; otherwise I could have poled up the Slide easily. I used a fourteen to sixteen foot pole and couldn't get bottom with that. On those 5292 trips I carried with me in the boat a load of something like five or six or seven hundred pounds. I have taken lots of shorter trips down the river and have been on ten or fifteen trips from Moab clear on to the junction. On those trips I would get mink, fox and coyote furs and I have also trapped beaver for the state. I have trapped from Moab down the Colorado to the junction 5293 and then up the Green River as far as fifty miles and probably farther. I have trapped up the Green River at what they call Up-heaval Bottom, which is above Mr. Anderson's place. In taking those trips I used a boat similar to that I have mentioned and poled on those trips and have done so when ice was running in the river. 799 |
