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Show ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) Ranch . We had no 139 life preservers with us on any of these trips , including those taken by the women and children . Just after the last mentioned trip , I entered the employ of the D . & R . G . W . Railroad Company , and have since only made a few trips to points 25 miles down the river from town . ( R . 4603-16 , Vol . 26 . ) In March , 1928 , 1 went from North Wash to Lees Ferry with the Galloways in open boats . On that trip we did not ship any water and encountered no difficulties . I recall encountering no serious trouble on any of the trips I have referred to except that if we got out of the channel we would strike a sand bar . We had no serious trouble . ( R . 4616-9 , Vol . 26 . ) It is easier to tow than to row upstream , and coming upstream with ( non-power nonpower ) boats I would change off , but would tow more than I Would row . Occasionally Green River freezes over in winter , but it ( doesn't doesnt ) occur every year . ( R . 4622-3 , Vol . 26 . ) On the lower Colorado River trip we ( didn't didnt ) encounter what I would term rapids . On neither the Green nor Colorado do the channels shift about unless there is some flood ; the channels generally appear in the same place every year , although there may be some ( obstruc obstruc- obstruc ) tion in high water that will divert the current and change the channel . I ( can't cant ) say that I ( haven't havent ) been on a sand bar on any trip . That is my signature on Exhibit 630 . It was prepared by Mr . Ryan , and I aimed to tell him substantially the same facts that I have detailed here as a witness and did not tell him anything substantially different than I have told here today . I ( don't dont ) remember encountering any sand ( waves vaves ) on the lower Colorado River trip . ( R . 4624-32 , Vol . 26 . ) H . J . Howland testified : I am 29 years old and have lived at Green River Utah most of my life . I recall no ( diffi- diffi ) , , culties on the trip I took with my father in 1910 down the Green and up the Colorado to Indian Creek and return . . ' As I grew older , I had occasion to ( make malce ) other Green River trips . In 1915 , ( I 1 ) went down to Valentine Bottom in October and came back the first of December . This was a trapping and hunting trip with my brother , and we brought back with us in our boat fox , coyote , badger and other furs . . Next year , between October 22nd and the first part of December , we made substantially the same trip , bringing our furs back with us in our boat . We encountered no difficulties . ( R . 4634-7 , Vol . 26 . ) |
