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Show Record twenty- five dollars to change the boat from a stern- wheeler to a 5399 side- wheeler; the fourteen horsepower engine cost about five hundred and fifty dollars. I made five or six trips to Moab with the Wilmont and at least five trip to Moab were made or compen- 5400 sation, carrying sightseers or hunters. When I took out hunting parties I also acted as guide. I took other trips than those when I went clear to Moab to points up the Colorado River above the mouth of the Green River. I took several trips as far up as Loc-khart and Indian Creek in the Wilmont; I would say twelve or fif-teen of such trips, which were all hunting or sightseeing trips. 5401 I took about thirty trips in the Wilmont down to the junction of the rivers when I did not go up the Grand River, some of them hunting trips and others of them sightseeing trips, and then I made some trips on my own account. We did some prospecting around the junction but were invariably paid for it by eastern parties whom we took down. Aside from my trips in the Wilmont when I went clear to Moab and aside from the other trips when I did not go to Moab but went to points between Moab and the junction of the rivers, and aside from trips in the Wilmont when I went to the junction, I made approximately half a dozen trips down the Green River as far as Valentine's Bottom. 5402 The Colorado didn't cost over three hundred and fifty dollars, including its second- hand engine. I don't recall ever taking the Colorado to Moab but went in that boat at least once to 5403 the junction on a hunting and sightseeing trip. After we took the engine out of the Colorado we used the hull as a scow and the last time I saw the hull it was tied up on the west bank at Townsite Bottom. I operated the Colorado as a motor boat one year and as a scow possibly two years. We had to carry some pretty heavy loads of feed for horses and every inch I could save in draft on the boat allowed us to take just that much more freight. We had had 5404 no real difficulty because of the draft of our boats but sand bars |
