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Show 163 ( lag leg ) and cut the current . ( R . 5112 , Vol . 29 ) My trip up the Colorado River was made in October , 1907 , and , , as I remember it , ( Jensen's Jensens Jenson's Jensons ) ranch to which we went is about 12 or probably 13 miles above Moab . ( R . 5114-15 , Vol . 29 . ) Otto Evvpey testified : I am 48 years old , my folks moved to Moab when I was four or five years old and I left Moab in 1918 or 1919 . As a boy at Moab I saw trappers on the river and have seen Rocky Powers come up the river in his boat with his skins after a trapping expedition . . ffe trapped there for five or six years and had no other occupation that I know of . I also remember Ed Turner , Hy Turner , Charlie Turner and another trapper named Louis Petzell , who would bring their furs in their boats to Moab after a trapping expedition . I saw other boats on the river besides those of the trappers , have gone on hunting trips in my own boat , and others went down the river on hunting trips in their boats . I never had any difficulty or trouble with sand bars on the Colorado River . ( R . 5116-19 , Vol . 29 . ) I remember the Branson boys rafting lumber on the Colorado River over a period of 5 , 6 or 7 years , maybe longer . As I grew older I rode the range some . At different times I have probably seen 8 or 10 of the Branson rafts . I remember a man named Brown and another man named Welsh who lived 12 or 15 miles up the river from Moab and who came down the river in their boats . Later I have seen what I suppose were the same boats upstream , tied along the banks of the river at their homes . ( R . 5119-21 , Vol . 29 . ) I made a trip 10 or 12 miles upstream from Moab and back in the Undine . The boat tried to go up the riffle at that point and while using the capstan engine at that point the rope broke and we returned to Moab . That night they purchased a new rope and again went upstream , but I did not accompany them . I later saw the Undine after it was wrecked . ( R . 5121-4 , Vol . 29 . ) 1 have taken cattle across the Colorado River in low water when it was not necessary for them to swim ; even at the very lowest water we always selected the shallow places where the water would come up to about the point of the shoulders or belly of the cattle . ( ( R . 5125-7 , Vol . 29 . . ) Some years the Colorado River would freeze at Moab so that we would have skating . Then it would go probably two or three years and we ( wouldn't wouldnt ) have any skating . I have seen the river frozen clear across five or six times . ( R . . 5128-30 , Vol . 29 . ) |