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Show 40 ( miles railes ) down the ( Greea Greem ) River 175 and made a number of trips with tourists and hunters on the Wilmont . All of these trips were for compensation . I frequently took a scow loaded with supplies down to Townsite Bottoms . We would leave the scow there as a sort of supply base and continue with the party to the head . of the cataracts with my power boat , ( returning- returning returning ) to the scow and getting more supplies as they were needed . In handling the scows that I have mentioned in my testimony we would always push them with the power boat . ( R . 5346-9 , Vol . 30 . ) After the winter of 1907-8 or 1908-9 , when the ice ran out in the spring , the Wilmont was caught and its hull so damaged that I removed , the machinery and built a ( 22-foot 22foot ) boat with a ( 5-foot 5foot ) beam and a draft empty of ( 18 1.8 ) inches , and with loads a draft up to 3 feet . In this boat I installed my old 71 < horsepower engine . This was a propeller boat ( and -and and ) , was named the Navajo . Between 1908 and 1912 we used the Navajo for carrying hunting parties and tourist parties to the cataracts and to points on the Colorado River above the junction . At one time I took the City Engineer of Salt Lake City and some other men from Green River , Utah , to Moab and return in the Navajo . I took several other trips with the Navajo from Green River , Utah to points near Moab , not going clear into Moab because these were hunting parties and our objective was hunting ground . On . these trips we took all of our supplies along with us in the boat and all of these trips were for compensation . During those years I took supplies for compensation to persons at Townsite Bottoms . I frequently towed row boats loaded with ( sup- sup ) plies . I kept the Navajo in operation during those years for the profit there was in navigating the river and ( couldn't couldnt ) afford to take pleasure trips . I lived at my ranch all the year round and brought most of my supplies down the river from ( town tow-n town ) in my boat , each year making many round trips , ( R . 5349-53 , Vol . 30 . ) After I took the ( four-horse fourhorse ) power engine out of the Wilmont I had no trouble in ( negoti negoti- negoti ) ¬ ating any portion of the Green or Colorado river with that boat . At times during the first few years we touched sand ( bars baxs ) but were off and on again without any serious ( diffi diffi- diffi ) ¬ culty ; I ( don't dont ) think we were ever on a sand bar with the Wilmont more than three minutes . The only difficulty I ever encountered in operating the Navajo was when there was a sand roll in the stream and the waves would cause water containing sand to ( g-et get get ) in the water jacket . Aside from |