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Show 2370-2 , Vol . 13 . ) In July , 1914 61 , 1 again left Green River , Utah , with Charles Russell , with two steel boats that we tried to deck over but ( couldn't couldnt ) make water tight . The boats had keels . We had no trouble down to the mouth of the San Rafael and very little trouble in Labyrinth and no ( trou- trou ) ble in Stillwater Canyon . In Cataract Canyon , at Rapid No . 4 , the waves were 20 feet high and right below where we expected trouble there - wjs not any rapid . Because of ( Russell's Russells ) peculiar actions and his fear of the big waves , he had an upset and lost his boat . ( R . 2374-84 , Vol . 13 . ) In September , 1914 , ( I 1 ) was employed with the ( Richard Richard- Richard ) son party , then engaged in drilling at the junction of the Green and Colorado . I made one trip in the Marguerite from ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) ranch to the junction , and on the way down we picked up the Betsy Ann barge , lashed it to the Marguerite , and took it with us . Once or twice we struck sand bars , but it was nothing serious . The approximate length of the two boats lashed together was 50 ( feet-perhaps feetperhaps ) a few feet more than that . I was on the upstream trip when they brought out the drilling outfit . The ( Marguerite's Marguerites ) load may have been two or four tons . We were on bars quite frequently and made the ( 95-mile 95mile ) upstream trip in four days . The stage of water was quite low . We left the Betsy Ann at ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) ranch and unloaded the freight from the ( Marguer Marguer- Marguer ) ite and then continued on up to the town of Green River in the Marguerite with about eight or ten men . We grounded at one place below the Auger and it seems to me that it took us a little while to get over the Auger . Just below Green River bridge we all helped push over the break where the island is located . It is much easier to avoid sand bar trouble coming upstream than down because you can back off the bars ; the current assists you . ( R . 2385-91 , Vol . 13 . ) In 1915 , Seaboldt and others were drilling a gravel bar at Good Hope and at Tickaboo for gold and I worked for them until October , 1915 . ( I 1 ) ran my light boat between Hite and Good Hope , about 18 miles up and down the river for those parties , bringing freight and mail to them . ( R . 2393-5 , Vol . 13 . ) In 1916 , Ellsworth Kolb and I boated from ( Glen- Glen ) wood Springs , Colorado , to the Cisco pump house on the Colorado River , my recollection being substantially the same as Mr . ( Kolb's Kolbs ) testimony concerning that trip . ( R . 2396-7 , Vol . 13 . ) I was on the Green River with the ( Trim- Trim ) ble party in 1922 , as head boatman and had substantially the difficulties enumerated by other witnesses who have |