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Show Record this boat, and in addition to the equipment there was some supplies. There were five or six men on the boat as a crew. 3584 Homer J. Hite testified on re- direct examination as follows: I never brought that boat back up the river. It stayed there at its destination for a good many years and finally was torn up and used for sluice boxes, and building purposes. In 1896 another party and I walked from Cisco to Moab 3585 along the talus along the side of the river. It was in the latter part of June. We did not have a boat. The water was too low to attempt to take a boat down. We walked down because it was the only method of transportation down the canyon. I made the trip to examine 3586 some placer claims for a Salt Lake and Greenriver company. At that time I had had considerable experience in building home- made boats. I suppose it would take a week or ten days to build one properly. On that trip I did not see any other boats on the Grand River, except seven miles below Cisco there was a flat boat across the river. I had to swim over to get it to bring my partner over. I saw some boats at Moab. The ferry boat and two row boats. After I got to Moab, I went overland to Thompson Spring, then on the railroad to Greenriver, and from Greenriver overland to 3587 Hite. I made a trip on the Green River either in 1892 or 1893 from about a mile above the Rio Grand Western bridge on the Green River to a point I would judge 40 or 50 miles above the mouth of the Green River. I would fix the point of the journey by some creek or location, because at that time there was but one settlement on Green River, and that was Wheeler's ranch, which was about 12 miles 3588 below Greenriver by wagon road and about 25 or 30 miles by the river I had a flat boat, very similar in construction to the one that we. took our machinery down the river, although not so extensive, four to six inches draft. The trip was made late in August. I made the 3589 trip to help a settler named Valentine down the river to Valentine's |