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Show to feel our way around ; we 95 had difficulty ( petting getting ) around another riffle and finally reached ( Wolverton Wolverto ) Ranch and tied up . We there raised our engines in order to raise the paddle wheel above the bottom of the boat to avoid rocks and went on up to the town of Green River . I ( don't dont ) think the boat drew over 18 inches . I ( haven't havent ) knowledge of any more trips by that boat and think they sold it to some Salt Lake firm . ( R . 3242-9 , Vol . 17 . ) I have made trips on the Green River in other boats but have no knowledge of Tom ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) boat named the ( Marguerite Alarguerite ) or the Betsy Ann , and ( don't dont ) know of any boats now tied up at Green River . ( R . 3250 , Vol . 17 . ) I ( re- re ) member another steam boat known as the Black Eagle which ( wasn't wasnt ) half as large as the Cliff Dweller , and I made a little trial trip in that along in 1908 or 1909 , It belonged to Mr . , . _ Yokey , and I ( haven't havent ) seen it since . During the ( periods periodg ) I have referred to I ( wasn't wasnt ) down to the river ( fre- fre ) quently ; perhaps only once a year . In September , 1909 , 1 made a trip on a side wheel gasoline propelled boat known as the Wilmont . I went sixty miles down to the Narrows in another gasoline boat called the Dispatch . We got stuck on a sand bar before we reached ( Wolverton's Wolvertons ) Ranch , camped there on the short , and next morning continued on down without further difficulties until we met the Wilmont at the Narrows . I went nine miles around Bowknot Bend in the Wilmont and then the Dispatch , the Wilmont and the skiff owned by Mr . Wolverton proceeded upstream to ( Wolverton's Wolvertons ) Ranch , encountering a few sand and gravel bars . We ( re- re ) mained there for three days and then went up to Green River in a day with the Wilmont and Dispatch ; we made it up over the Brown riffle without grounding and thence on to Green River , Utah , without any trouble . I made another trip in the Dispatch from Green River , Utah , to Little Valley of about the same character as other trips . On one trip I made in a ( four-oared fouroared ) boat belonging to Yokey I was hung up on a flat rock close to Little Valley ; had quite a little trouble getting loose and then went on down all right . On another trip we abandoned the Slapping Sal at a point below Tenmile Bottom . That was in December , and next spring we got the boat back again . At Trap Ford , above my place at Green River , Utah , the channel has changed 200 yards from its original place , the rocks that used to be there having now disappeared and the riffle being 200 yards below where they used to ford ; above there the river has |