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Show Record out of the hull of the Colorado. The Navajo was equipped with a propeller. I left the river in 1912 and between the years 1903 and 1912 we used the Navajo for carrying hunting parties and tourists down to cataracts and hunting parties down the Green and up the Grand River. At one time we carried the City Engineer of Salt Lake, a man named Smith, with two or three other men from Green River to the junction and thence up to Moab and back again to the 5351 town of Green River. I took several other trips with the Navajo to points right close to Moab, not going clear to the town because they were hunting parties and were looking for hunting ground; I didn't stop short of Moab because of any difficulties in navigation. All of those trips were for compensation. On all of these trips we took our supplies along with us. During those years we took supplies for compensation to persons down by Townsite Bottoms and I remember one trip in par-ticular where we took supplies there for I. A. Anderson, who has bean a witness in this case. I frequently towed row boats loaded 5352 with supplies. During those year I kept the Navajo in operation for the profit there was in navigating the river; we couldn't afford to take pleasure trips. I lived there at my ranch all the years round and brought most of my supplies down the river from the town of Green River by boat. Not very many supplies were brought down any other way, although at times supplies were brought in on the west side down to the mouth of the San Rafael and we would bring our boat up to the mouth of the San Rafael and get them. 5353 Each year during those years I made many trips from my ranch up to the town of Green River and back down with my boats. After I took the four horsepower engine out of the Wilmont I had no trouble in negotiating any portions of the Green and Colorado Rivers so far as swift water is concerned or riffles or rapid water, and we had no serious difficulties with respect to 811 |
