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Show to encounter trouble after leaving ( 29 99 ) ( Mile-post Milepost Milepost ) 39 , that boat having been towed by the big scow ( up ap ) to that point . Going down on the scow and the ( smaller smallir ) boat we encountered trouble with sand bars at eleven different places . ( R . 1351-2 , Vol . 7 . ) It was not necessary for any one to go overboard and push the boats off from sand bars on either my Colorado or Green River boat trips . ( R . 1354 , Vol . 7 . ) The only oil permits in which my company was interested below the Shafer wells was at Indian Creek . ( R . 1363 , Vol . 7 . ) On the river trip I have descrived I made notations of difficulties in navigation after I passed Indian Creek clear down to 5 miles below the confluence and ( thence therize ) up to Mile 34 on the Green River , ( although althouah ) my company had not even a prospec ¬ tive contract for drilling wells or any other interest in wells in the vicinity of Green River . ( R . 1363-5 , Vol . 7 . ) ( I 1 ) have heard that my company was a defendant in a certain suit instituted by the State of Utah and Texas Oil Company against the Midwest Refining Compny , Shafer and others . ( R . 1368 , Vol . 7 . ) One reason why I made notations as to navigability on the Green River was to determine whether we could bring supplies down from Green River to the ( junc junc- junc ) ¬ tion and thence up to Indian Creek on the Colorado River by boat . ( R . 1377 , Vol . 7 . ) ( Franklin Frankliii ) A . ( Nims Nivis ) testified : I am 75 years old and on May , 25 , 1889 , left Green River , Utah , with the Robert B . Stanton expedition . There were sixteen in the party , which was to survey a railroad line down the Colorado River . We had ( 15-foot 15foot ) boats with a ( 3-foot 3foot ) beam and a depth of 2 feet and keel bottom . ( R . 1382-3 , Vol . 7 . ) Between Green River , Utah , and the mouth of the San Rafael ( we ive ) encountered rapids and gravel bars and about 2 miles below the town my boat struck a rock which knocked two holes in it ; ( oc- oc ) casionally our oars would strike gravel , showing that it was shallow . Between the San Rafael and Labyrinth Canyon , we encountered some rapids with no damage to the boats except to spring some seams . Once in a while we would run on to a sand bar , jump out and pull the boat off and go on . ( "All All ) of the boats ( didn't didnt ) do that ; the boats in the lead would do that , and the others would attempt to steer clear of it by trying to find another current , , or a current , in another place . " We started with six boats , which were so heavily loaded that the water came within three or four inches of the gunnel . Thereafter we pulled ashore and made a raft , which the ( sixth 'Sixth Sixth ) boat towed with part of our cargo |
