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Show Some time about 1910 171 or 1911 1 went with fishing parties in a power boat , built there at Moab by Merkins . It looked more like a box than a boat , being 15 or 18 feet long and 6 or 8 feet wide . I ( don't dont ) ( know knov ) the horsepower of the engine . On these fishing trips there would be twelve or fifteen people on the boat and we ( would ivould- ivould ) go down the river six or seven miles below Moab and then come back upstream . We encountered no difficulties with respect to sand bars or other obstacles or obstructions to navigation . I think these trips were taken in August . ( R . 5284-7 , Vol . 30 . ) ( Hifrum Hyrunt ) H . ( Turner Twnio- Twnio ) testified : I am 79 years old , and have lived in Moab between twenty and thirty years . When I first arrived there I had a few cattle but sold them and came back to Moab and engaged in trapping . I ( generally- generally generally ) used a boat pointed at both ends , and always poled my boats . I have trapped down the Colorado River from Moab to the head of Cataract Canyon from four to six ( times tinies ) , bringing my furs back up to Moab in my boat . We never did any towing except when we got tired of poling , and never from necessity except at the Slide , where it was too deep for my pole . On the trapping expeditions I have mentioned I would have a load of six or seven hundred pounds in my boat . ( R . 5288-92 , Vol . 30 . ) ( I 1 ) have been on ten or fifteen trapping expeditions from Moab down as far as the junction of the rivers , getting mink , fox and coyote furs . I have also trapped beaver on the river for the State of Utah . I have trapped from Moab down to the junc ¬ tion and thence to a point at least 50 miles up the Green River . ( R . 5292-3 , Vol . 30 . ) ( I 1 ) have never been bothered with sand bars on any of these trips ; there ( was Nvas ) always a channel , but in poling upstream we would hunt the still water ; ( might rnight ) strike a sand bar , swing right off , and go on . ( R . 5293-4 , Vol . 30 . ) One season I trapped on the Colorado River from the mouth of the Dolores down ( to -to to ) Moab , and another year from ( Westvvater West-Nvater WestNvater ) to Moab , bringing my camp outfit and furs down with me in my boat on both occasions . I have rafted logs on ( the- the the ) . Colorado River from a point about 8 miles above Moab down to Moab bridge . ( R . 5294-5 , Vol . 30 . ) 1 worked on the barge of the ( Moab 111oab ) Garage Company for about six weeks when they first started to operate . We , of course , got on sand bars , which we ( ex- ex ) pect on any river ; sometimes we might be held up for an hour , sometimes a little longer , but ( we ive- ive ) were never detained |