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Show the water , and a man would 103 take a line ashore and get the boat off in 20 or 30 feet so the ( wheel -wheel wheel ) would strike the water and we would go on . ( R . 3398-3401 , Vol . 18 . ) After my trip in the Cliff Dweller , I built a boat called the Black Eagle that was 40 feet long with a ( 6-foot 6foot ) beam and a draft of 7 or 8 inches . It was equipped with a water tube boiler and a ( 20-horsepower 20horsepower ) engine . On a trip I made with that boad down to a point within 10 miles of Valentine Bottom , the water tube got full of mud and it blew up . I came back upstream with Mr . Wolverton on the Wilmont , taking the boiler and engine out of the Black Eagle , and later bringing them up to Green River , Utah . ( R . 3411-13 , Vol . 18 . ) I was employed by John F . Richardson of the ( Reclama Reclama- Reclama ) tion Service to ( take -take take ) some machinery down the river for use on the government survey , and took Mr . Richardson down to the head of the Cataracts in a ( 14-foot 14foot ) boat having a ( 6-horse- 6horse ) power engine . I built a barge 32 feet long by 8 feet wide , put 500 or 1000 pounds of supplies in the barge at Green River bridge , and went down the river . I got another launch that I had used at ( Halverson's Halversons ) ranch , ten miles ( below 'below below ) ; at that point we loaded the barge with more supplies that had come there overland . I had no difficulty going down to ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) ranch . After I had finished loading the barge at ( Halverson's Halversons ) ranch , we lashed it to my launch and took it down to the mouth of the Green River . ( R . 3415-8 , Vol . 18 . ) After we made the round trip to Valentine Bottom with the Cliff Dweller , its owner , Mr . Lumsden , told Mr . ( Anderson 'Anderson Anderson ) and me that we could go ahead and operate the boat during the season at our own expense ; Anderson and I started in in good faith to do this , but when Lumsden made the sale of the boat we released him from his agreement . We thought some changes should be made in the boat and we were going to be allowed to keep all we could make out of it during the next season . When we started down the river with the Cliff Dweller we had seven tons of coal on board and I am sure that it then drew about 20 inches . ( R . 3419-21 , Vol . 18 . ) I have lost track of the number of times I have been down to the mouth of the Green River in boats ; some years since 1903 ( I 1 ) have made from three to five trips and other years not more than once or twice . If a party came along I was always ready to take them down . ( R . 3423 , Vol . 18 . ) Some years there are spots between Green River Utah , and the mouth of the Green where at low water you ( couldn't couldnt ) |