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Show 940 you had more trouble with your boat on those trips going down over the Green river than you had, for instance, between the stretch of water below the Cataract canyon and Lees Ferry? " A No, you didn't have more trouble. " Q What would you say, was it about the same? " A About the same. Q And from your observation of those rivers, the Green and the Colorado, you would say that the troubles and impediments and obstacles to travel up or down it on boats are about the same on that part of the Green river between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the Green river, as it is on that part of the Colorado river lying between Cataract canyon and Lees Ferry, - about the same? " A Yes." R. 2225- 2226. Redirect Examination. ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2226- 2227.) " BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q Who was this man you call Old Rocky? " A Old Rocky was an old trapper and hunter. I would have stayed with him longer, but he was a little too tough for me. By gosh, he was the dirtiest man I ever saw. There was water enough in the river to bathe in, but he wouldn't bathe. " Q You left Old Rocky there? " A They know him well there along Green river, but he is dead, quite a number of years. " Q You left him there at Wheelers? " A I left him below Wheelers a ways. He would get his furs, go up there and trade them off at the ferry. He would start up there, by gracious, with tobacco and a jug of whiskey and not a bite of anything else to eat, and go down there to be gone for months; just live on what he could kill and catch; it's a fact." R. 2226- 2227. |