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Show 167 Albort L Anderson testified : : I first went to Green River , , Utah , in 1908 . . I was then investigating certain oil ground 18 or 20 miles west of Townsite Bottom . Four of us went from Green River , Utah , down to ( Miller's Millers ) Canyon ( -it it ) Townsite Bottom with two row boats , each carrying a load of about 900 pounds . The draft of the boat was 10 or 12 inches . . We were met at ( Miller's Millers ) Canyon with a pack outfit and horses and went thence to the oil ground in which we were interested . ( R . 5230-3 , Vol . 30 . ) In March of the next year I made the same trip in a row boat ( with ivith ) 100 pounds of supplies . Later I returned upstream to Green River , Utah , with that boat . In April , 1909 , , 1 made a trip with Mr . . Oppenheimer in the motor boat Paddy Ross down to Sheep Trail , where we met Lieutenant Leeds and his party and we then returned upstream to Green River , ( Utah "Utah Utah ) . ( R . 5234-6 , Vol . 30 . ) 1 made a trip with Mr . Blake in the Ida B . , , and on one of my trips with Mr . Blake we towed a row boat behind his motor boat up to Green River . On one trip with Mr . Oppenheimer we took a row boat along with us . . On some of Mr . ( Blake's Blakes ) excursions there were as many as ( twenty-five twentyfive ) or thirty people on his boat ; it was so crowded that nothing but heads were sticking out , many small children being on board . In November , 1909 , I made a trip from Green River to Moab and return with the Hughes party ; we made this trip in the Paddy Ross boat . ( R . . 5237-8 , Vol . . 30 . ) In 1910 ( I 1 ) made another trip in a row boat loaded with supplies from Green River , Utah , to Townsite Bottom . ( R . 5239 , Vol . 30 . ) On one occasion I went down to Townsite Bottom in a row boat and came back up to Green River in Ross ( Wheeler's Wheelers ) boat . On another occasion I went from Townsite Bottom to Green River , Utah , in Ed ( Prothero's Protheros ) boat . ( R , 5241-2 , Vol . 30 . ) 1 made a trip in the Navajo to Tuxedo Bottom , 110 miles below Green River , , Utah . . In 1914 while the government drilling operation was in progress at the junction of the rivers , the govern ¬ . ment employed me and my boat , and in it I made several trips to Moab and return with surveyors . I was on the upstream trip when the drilling outfit was taken out . . ( R . . 5242-5 , Vol . 30 . ) ) I never encountered anydifficulties or ( ob- ob ) structions to navigation during my experience on the Green and Colorado Rivers . The nearest I ever came to getting stuck on a sand bar was when I made a trip down the river with ( Messrs 111essrs ) . . Richardson and LaRue ; ; but we hardly stopped , just touched the bar and went right on . . I know of no fact or ( con- con ) |