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Show to a point 4 or 5 miles below 16 the mouth of the San Rafael and camped . ( R . 667 , Vol . 4 . ) We had trouble getting through what they called the Gimlet , where we touched the banks or rocks , but ( after -after after ) getting through there we came into more quiet water and got ( along1 along ) very well between there and the mouth of the Green River , except that we encountered sand or gravel bars in several places . ( R . 668 , Vol . 4 . ) We were hung up several times , maybe for two or three hours , maybe an hour . ( R . 669 , Vol . 4 . ) Our boat was not capable of ( mak- mak ) ing it up the Slide on the Colorado River , so we turned around and came back up the Green River . The water was very high at this time , it being during the ( spring sprii-Ig spriiIg ) ( run-off runoff ) . ( R . 670-1 , Vol . 4 . ) We tied the boat up at the Wolverton or Halverson ranch , ( some sorne ) 10 or 12 miles below Green River , Utah . ( R . 673 , Vol . 4 . ) The cabins on the boat were about 7 feet high . ( R . 681 , Vol . 4 . ) The reason we ( couldn't couldnt ) go up the Slide was that we ( didn't didnt ) have enough power . ( R . 684 , Vol . 4 . ) ( I 1 ) concluded that I ( couldn't couldnt ) make money operating the boat . I think we investigated as to whether the traffic that we could get would meet our operating expenses and yield a fair return on the investment , and when I received an attractive proposition for using the boat on Great Salt Lake , I decided that was a more profitable field . ( R . 760-2 , Vol . 4 . ) Arthur H . Spencer testified : I live in Denver . From 1878 to 1884 , my father ran a store at Farmington , New Mexico , at Four Corners and at ( Spencer's Spencers ) Mesa . In 1908 , ( I 1 ) went to Mexican Hat . ( R . 687-8 , Vol . 4 . ) The high waters which come in the spring on the San Juan River are regular , seasonal fluctuations , while the fall high waters are the result of rains . I have ( wever never ) operated boats on the San Juan River nor have I known of boats being operated ( ex- ex ) cept in crossing the river . ( R . 701 , Vol . 4 . ) ( I 1 ) have never seen the San Juan River so dry that it was not running , but I have seen it quite dry a good many times , for instance , up east of Bluff in the sand flats , ( and -and and ) in 1917 , it got pretty dry below Chinle Wash . It was not 20 feet across at Goodridge for a time that year . ( R . 703 , Vol . 4 . ) ( I 1 ) have taken a thousand pictures of the San Juan River , and those introduced here in evidence were picked out from the rest . Two of those produced here show the San Juan River at low water . I have other pictures which show the river at low water , but I will not pick them out or bring them here into court . ( R . 715-16 , Vol . 4 . ) |