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Show moved about its width ; and , in 96 1905 , Saleratus Wash , which comes in at Green River , Utah , was probably 50 or 60 feet wide and is now 200 yards wide . I ( don't dont ) know of ( merchan- merchan ) dise ever having been shipped to Green River via boat . ( R . 3251-60 , Vol . 17 . ) ( Molly 111olly ) Newby testified : I was on one trip in the ( Dis- Dis ) patch mentioned by my husband , William R . Newby . I never saw the Black Eagle or Wilmont but saw one of ( Yokey's Yokeys ) row boats and I ( don't dont ) know of any boats on the Green River now , or of merchants or people getting supplies by boats . ( R . ( 3261-3 3261-0 ) , Vol . 17 . ) Louis ( M 111 ) . Chaffin testified : I have been on the Colorado * . River from the mouth of the Green to Lees Ferry , my first experience being in 1888 or 1889 , at the California bar , to the shore opposite which point we hauled a 60 horse power boiler and other freight . ( R . 3265-8 , Vol . 17 . ) In 1892 , 1 was again at the river with Ed Meskin , who was trapping ; we built a boat 16 feet long and 3 feet wide at the mouth of Hanson Creek , put our supplies in the boat , and poled and rowed our boat up the river to ( Kite Hite ) , also towing the boat . ( R . 3268-70 , Vol . 17 . ) Later I went down the river to ( Hole-in-the-Rock HoleintheRock ) , encountering no obstacle that gave us any great trouble , although occasionally we would get on mud bars . Meskin knew the river well , and this trip was made in the winter . We went back up to Hanson Creek in February ; a time or two it was necessary for us to get out into the water , but perhaps we could have poled the boats over those places . ( R . 3271-2 , Vol . 17 . ) In 1892 and 1893 , there were people operating at ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing , and Cass Hite had quite an outfit below Hite ; there were also men at Tickaboo and Good Hope bars ; probably 25 or 30 men there . In 1894 , with two companions , I prospected along the river at various places , rowing and towing our boat on upstream trips . During that period we had a contract to deliver wood and timber to the California bar for Mitchell and Ryan , who were then working it ; we would make rafts for this purpose and also load our boat . Supplies would come to Hite overland and we would take ( them -them them ) down the river by boat . That year we were working about 35 or 40 miles below Hite . In going upstream , we would row , tow and pole ; on one trip , when we had a larger boat than usual , it was difficult to row upstream while the river was rising |