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Show 420 there is about thirty rapids in the split Mountain Canyon. I guess there is fifty or sixty in Ledore." R. 1072 He has never taken a boat from the mouth of the Green River up to Greenriver city. He thinks it might be done by rowing and towing the boat and that it would be about the same proposition, as near as he can see, as it is on the Colorado, only the distance is farther, - one hundred twenty miles. Small little ( R. Vol. 6 - pp. 1074- 1111) Witness's father's name was Nathaniel Galloway, who did considerable trapping on the Green and Colorado rivers and possible some on the San Juan River. In following the trapping business, he boated down the rivers and designed the type of boat now known as the Galloway boat. Most of his father's trips were cade alone but he has been with him. In his recollection, his father made trips from Vernal, Utah, or Jensen, down the Green River and Colorado to the mouth of the San Juan, although he had never accompanied his father down the river s far as Greenriver, Utah. His father never used motor boats while he was engaged in trapping. He navigated in the old style way with row boats. He would not any that the impediments, occasioned by bars and otherwise, between Shafer well and Moab, were substantially the same or a little bit |
