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Show mishap encountered was the 142 breaking of the engine of our first boat ; we encountered no trouble from sand bars or with rapid water . In July , 1907 , I made another trip from . . Green River , ( "Utah Utah Utah ) , to the head of Cataract Canyon and return in a gasoline power boat . On that occasion we met with no mishap of any kind and encountered no difficulties . ( R . 4681-7 , Vol . 26 . ) The stage of water was approximately the same on each of these trips , although probably a little higher on the 1908 trip . ( R . 4687-8 , Vol . 26 . ) Jesse M . Branson testified : In 1897 and 1898 my father , with whom I was associated , was operating a sawmill on Castle Creek and ( supplied sapplied ) the Moab country with lumber , I rafting the lumber on the Colorado River between the mouth ! of Castle Creek and Moab during those years . Between ' 1902 and 1909 our sawmill was on Fisher Point in the LaSal Mountains ( and'during andduring ) that period we again shipped lumber to Moab , rafting it on the river from the mouth of Castle Creek down . Our mill on Castle Creek was 16 miles and our mill on Fisher Point was 22 miles from the river , to which we hauled our lumber with teams . The size of our rafts would ; depend on the size of lumber ordered and would average around 64 feet in length by 16 feet in width and we would I carry down from 10,000 to 15,000 feet of lumber on a raft . ! ' During the years that we were rafting there we sent down approximately ten rafts of lumber per year . Ordinarily i there would be two men accompanying each raft and ( some- some ) j times we took two rafts down together containing about j 26,000 feet of lumber . These raft trips were taken between June and December and we have rafted lumber during each | of the months of the year from June to December . ( R . 4709- > 14 , Vol . 27 . ) During that time we would sometimes go down to Moab with a wagonload of lumber , but only a very small j portion of our lumber was taken to Moab in any other way than upon rafts on the Colorado River . It was a cheaper f and easier method of transportation because two men could run 10,000 ( feet feel ) of lumber in one or two days on a raft , , whereas it would take six or seven ( 4-horse 4horse ) teams and six or seven men to transport the same amount overland . Aside j from losing about 3000 feet of lumber from one raft , , we ' had no mishap in ( which ivhich ) we lost any of the lumber rafted I by us during those years and all of our rafts got through . . I ( R . 4715-17 , Vol . 27 . ) 1 have gone down from Castle Creek |