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Show clear over to the Colorado 102 River ; our supplies came ( over over- over ) land , as did our supplies when , in 1923 , ( I 1 ) was with a party surveying around ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing ; on the last mentioned survey I ( didn't didnt ) get down to the water or off ( tlie the ) high land . ( R . ( 3370-1 3370-IL 3370IL ) , Vol . 18 . ) I was with the survey party from Moab to a point ten miles below Shafer Well No . ( 2-a 2a ) government survey party ; we then had our headquarters at No . 2 Well and obtained our supplies by boat and pack train . We used an ( 18-foot 18foot ) row boat equipped with an outboard motor in our survey ( opera opera- opera ) ¬ tions ; when our motor failed us and we were unable to row upstream , we would tow it up . I made an upstream trip on the Moab Garage barge and at several places we had trouble with sand bars , three times taking cables to shore . On one occasion we were hung up two hours and had to drag the boat upstream for about 150 feet . ( R . 3373-8 , Vol . 18 . ) H . T . Yokey testified : I have built and operated so many boats on the Green River that I have forgotten how many I have operated , my first experience being in 1903 when I went 125 miles down the river to Cataract Canyon in a ( 15-foot 15foot ) row boat with a ( 3i 31 ) / _ ( -foot foot ) beam . On the ( up- up ) stream trip we rowed and towed . This was a hunting trip and I took similar trips for two or three years . I helped launch the City of Moab and when we got down to the ( con- con ) fluence in that boat and up the Colorado as far as the Slide we were unable to make it up the Slide at the flood stage then existing in the river ; we retraced our steps and tied the boat up at ( Halverson's Halversons ) ranch . On the upstream trip we hit a sand bar a few times but went on over them . The round trip consumed approximately ten days . At high water it takes a good craft to go up the Slide , whereas at ordinary water there is no difficulty at that point . ( R . 3394-7 , Vol . 18 . ) After this trip the owner decided to take off the upper part of the boat , remove the tunnels , and to extend it 10 feet in length so as to make it a ( 61-foot 61foot ) boat and to put in steam power . After these alterations were made the boat was named the Cliff Dweller , and we went down to ( Valen Valen- Valen ) ¬ tine Bottom , 100 miles below Green River , Utah , having a very good downstream voyage . Our upstream trip coming back was better than the downstream trip . Once in a while we would run on a . sand bar . On the return journey we went clear up to the town of Green River . In going over the riffles , because of the length of the boat , its bow would jerk around and the stern come up and lift the wheeel out of |