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Show haul . ( R . 5026-52 , Vol . 29 . At 160 the pages indicated the witness gives facts showing the cost of the land and water haul . ) I am familiar with the country ( adjacent -adjacent adjacent ) to the Colorado River between Moab and the mouth of the Green River and in my opinion it would not be feasible or practicable to build a road so as to make that country accessible to trucks . ( R . 5033-8 , Vol . 29 . ) ( Complainant's Complainants ) Exhibit No . 632 , being a schedule of rates filed with the Public Utilities Commission of ( Utah T-Jtah TJtah ) by Moab Garage Company in 1926 was received in evidence . ( R . 5057-8 , Vol . 29 . ) 1 ( don't dont ) recall any freight to amount to anything being carried on the river except in our boats and the Moab merchants have not used the river to bring in their supplies or take them out . ( R . 5061 , Vol . 29 . ) After you learn how to do it , I would rather navigate the river in high water . In coming upstream we run our boats in the easy water and take advantage of the eddies , and in so doing have very little trouble with sand bars in high water . In thus coming upstream you are more liable to run into sand bars . Our boats had no trouble making headway against the current in high water , although we ( wouldn't wouldnt ) make headway in the swiftest places . We have been unable to make headway at those places only while we ( were ivere ) crossing the river ; then we ( wouldn't wouldnt ) make much headway . We were ( always al-ways always ) able to hold the boat upstream and we never let it be whipped around or encountered any trouble from any such cause . ( R . 5066-7 , Vol . 29 . ) The Punkin Seed would make three or four miles an hour upstream ; the Chandler five or six miles an hour when loaded ; and . the Black boat was not quite as fast as the Chandler and a little faster than the Punkin Seed . Those upstream speeds would be made at any month of the year and during either high or low water . ( R . 5069 , Vol . 29 . ) Our Black boat is still at Moab , ready for use , although we ( have bave ) not used it for the last year . The Chandler boat is still there , but we have only made two trips with that boat this year . ( R . 5071 , Vol . 29 . ) At certain times of the year there is a bar at the mouth of Mill Creek which has given us trouble , , the trouble generally being in July and August ( when -vvhen vvhen ) they have big storms . After a storm we will be bothered there for a week or ten days . ( R . 5074 , Vol . 29 . . ) I have run up the river with the Chandler boat beyond ( N"igger Nigger Yigger ) Bill to a point about 6 miles above Moab . The riffle at Nigger Bill ( doesn't doesnt ) |