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Show Trail , below ( Mexican Alexican ) Hat , 138 for Mr . ( Mcndenhall Mendenhall ) . . I rode a horse down , but Mr . Mendenhall went down from Bluff in a skiff . For two ( months niontlis ) during 1895 , 1 clerked in ( Adams' Adams ) store , sold merchandise to miners , and saw them take the supplies down the lane to the river at Bluff . ( R . . 4589-92 , , Vol . 26 . ) 1 knew a man called Old Rocky , who trapped up and down the San Juan River , catching lots of beaver . . ( R . 4593 , Vol . 26 . ) Once when I was at ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing on the Colorado River , I met a trapper by the name of Mesken , , who trapped up and down that stream . ( R . 4594 , Vol . 26 ) On the occasion when I encountered sand waves , the supplies did not get wet . ( R . 4598 , Vol . 26 . ) Harry Taylor ( Hoivland Howland ) testified : I went to Green River , Utah , in 1893 , and took a prospecting and trapping trip thence down the river to a point near the junction , where we got fox , wild cat , beaver and coyote furs . Our boat was 16 or 18 feet long , with a 3Vi ! ( -foot foot ) beam . We brought our skins back up the river to Green River in our boat , being gone about sixty days during December and January . In August , 1894 , ( I 1 ) went trapping down the Colorado River from Moab to the junction and thence up the Green River to Green River , Utah , bringing in some furs similar to those I obtained on my first trip . In 1895 , ( I 1 ) took a Denver man and two other men from Green River to Moab , receiving compensation from the Denver man for this trip . My ( part- part ) ner and I came in our boat back down the Colorado and up the Green River to Green River , Utah , doing some trapping on our way back . In 1897 , ( I 1 ) took my wife and young baby , my father and another man and lady on a ( 25-mile 25mile ) trip down the Green River and return . In 1897.9 ( I 1 ) moved away , but returned in 1903 or 1904 , when I made a few short boat trips to ( Wolverton's Wolvertons ) Ranch . Again I moved away and j returned to Green River , Utah , in 1908 or 1909 . I then went on a trip in the Marguerite from Green River to Moab when f the Salt Lake business men made that trip . In 1910 , I went down to the mouth of the Green and up the Colorado to Indian Creek and return with my wife and three boys , ( rang- rang ) \ ing in age from fourteen to six years . I had an ( 18-foot 18foot ) boat , I with a ( 4-foot 4foot ) beam , on this trip , ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit No . 17 j being a picture of that boat . I had arranged with Mr . ( NYol- NYol ) verton to meet us with his power boat and tow us up the | Green from the junction but got 35 or 40 miles upstream I before we met him and he towed us from that point up to |