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Show 436 It would be possible, in his opinion, to take a boat up the Green River from the city of Green River, Utah, to the dam, about eight miles above the town. He has never seen any other boats than his own in operation on the section of Green River north of the town of Green River, Utah. He has made four five trips down the Green River to its junction with the Colorado from Greenriver, Utah. In that section of the river he always found the location of the sand bars to be the same but had a good deal of trouble with them. This trouble occurs nearly all the way along that stretch of the river. There were some stretches of the river where he didn't have quite as much trouble, but others were had enough to pay for it. R. 1123- 1126 He has been through Cataract Canyon twice. One of the trips especially remembered by him was with the Eddy party in 1927, when he acted as guide for the party and operated the boats as head boatman. Considerable trouble was had on the first part of the trip because none of the party except himself had had any experience in navigation. The first rapids they came to were run. R. 1126- 1128 " Q. Did you run them light, or did you run them loaded? " A. We run them with all our loads in the boats. I might mention, these boats were run in waves where that Mr. Eddy had, so we could run in waves where |