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Show 87 I know that we wanted ( so go ) further upstream because . Spencer said we did , but I ( didn't didnt ) know to what point . All I know is that we just started to go up the river turned around and came back . ( R . 3112 , Vol . 17 . ) ( Edward Edivard ) C . ( Swnner Sumner ) testified : 1 have been on the Green River and was on the Colorado River from ( Hfte Hite ) down to Hanson Creek in the winter and spring of 1897-8 working for the Good Hope Placer Mining Company . ( R . 3122-3 , Vol . 17 . ) Supplies came to Trachyte Creek overland , from which point they were boated down the river 15 or 18 miles to Good Hope bar . Our boats were about 16 feet long and 4 or 5 feet wide , and in going upstream they would tow them and when the wind ( -was was was ) fairly good they would sail up the river . I have never gone from Good Hope up to Hite by boat myself but have gone from Good ( Hope I-lope Ilope ) to Olympia bar on the river , and on that trip we went right along nicely . Going upstream it was not so easy . At first there was a heavy wind and we put up our sail , which consisted of a piece of carpet , and went along very rapidly ; then the wind went down and it became a question of towing . I ( can't cant ) say that there are any rapids between Good Hope and Olmpia bars , but there was some pretty swift water , but no really heavy fast water . ( R . 3124-6 , Vol . 17 . ) In 1898 Mr . Stanton brought in a drilling machine to test the bed of the river for gold . The only boats there during my time - were skiffs . Mr . Stanton built a large , ( flat-bottomed flatbottomed ) boat , upon which they carried the drilling machine ; they would drill across the bars and then drop the boat down , pick up the machine and go over the still water ; on the rapids they would use a cable and pull the machine across . The drilling machinery was pretty heavy and they ( didn't didnt ) take too much chance of grounding . I have no recollection of any ledge running clear across the river in the section I traversed . ( R . 3127-9 , Vol 17 . ) T . ( Cwnimings Cummings ) Bennett testified : I first went to the Colorado River in 1920 at ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing , and thence to Hite on horseback . At that time I was working for the Henry Mountain Oil Company , operating across the river from Rincon , about 100 miles above Lees Ferry . I built a raft at Good Hope bar , about 14 feet square and drawing 7 or 8 inches of water , loaded some casing and six inch pipe on it . . When we reached ( Olympia Olyrapia ) bar we loaded a wagon and |