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Show 141 return with a party of geologists in one of Captain ( Yokey's Yokeys ) power boats . It ( was ivas ) 5 or 6 feet wide and about 24 feet long . . There were eight in our party and they employed me to take them down to the junction . No other member of ( the- the the ) . party had ever been on the river before to my knowledge and that was my first trip on the river ( except to cross in a boat there at the town ) and it was the first time I ever operated a motor boat . Every one took a turn at piloting the boat and I operated the engine . It was late in the summer or early fall , when the water was at a low stage . The engine in this boat was a wreck when we started out and was rated at about ( six-horse sixhorse ) power . We had no trouble keeping in the channel of the river and the only difficulty encountered in going downstream was that once we stuck on a sand bar for four or five minutes . The geologists were met at the junction by another power boat , their destination being Moab . I came back up the Green River with my boat and tied it up at Little Valley , four miles below town , that being the point where I had obtained the boat and from which we started on our river trip . On my upstream journey I encountered no difficulty in navigating the stream . On the downstream trip the party stopped to examine the country at different places and we consumed five days ; I made the upstream journey in 21 / days . ( R . 4653-9 , Vol . 26 . ) Guy Sterling testified : I am a civil engineer . In 1908 I made a boat trip from Green River , Utah , to the head of Cataract Canyon and return using a ( 30-foot 30foot ) boat with a ( 5-foot 5foot ) beam , equipped with an engine and propeller ; the boat belonged to ( Milton Ifilton ) Oppenheimer , whom I employed to take me down so that I could make an examination for a tentative damsite below the junction of the rivers . On the upstream trip we consumed 2Vi days , reaching a point 15 miles below Green River , Utah . When we reached that point something about the engine broke . I camped there that night and Mr . Oppenheimer went to Green River and came back with a stern wheel boat , 12 or 15 feet wide and from 30 to 35 feet long , propelled by a steam engine . He towed the boat in which we had made the river trip up to Green River , Utah , ( making- making making ) the 15 miles between 9 : 00 ( o'clock oclock ) a . m . and 2 : : 00 ( o'clock oclock ) p . m . We encountered no sand bars on the downstream trip and I recall no trouble of any character going down . On the upstream trip the only difficulty or |