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Show 422 " A. No sir, I didn't. " Q. There is where you would need your boat, if you were going book there to trap? " A. Why so? If I had a permit to trap beaver between Moab ans the Junction of the river, and was coming back and could get to Moab, why should I not want my boat to be at Moab? Then I could float down the river." R. 1084 " Q. You came back and did trap there, did you, from lockhart to Moab? " A. Yes sir, I did. " Q. You don't wish to imply from any of your testimony with reference to leaving that boat there at Lockhart that you couldn't have taken that boat up to Moab if you had wanted to? " A. As I said before, I was in floating ice when I left that boat at Camp Lockhart, I had a hard time getting from the junction of the river to Camp Lockhart; I didn't care to go any further. " If I had wanted to go any further, I wouldn't have walked over the hill and carried my stuff out of there in order to get that big boat." R. 1086 " Q. By the way do beavers select as a site for their dams and for making their caches the channel of a river? " A. The beavers select, as I understand them for putting in a cache for their winter food, any deep water; I wouldn't necessarily say that it is |