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Show 1021 When he reached the mouth of the San Juan River on the Trimble trip he did not see Mr. Wimmer but had seen him further down on the Colorado when Wimmer came to the survey camp at a point about half way between the mouth of the San Juan and Aztec Creek. He came to the camp in a row boat which had an outboard motor attached to it and was accompanied by a man named Howland. R. 2419. The boat in which Wimmer rode came up the river to the camp, contained no supplies so far as he knows, and after leaving his camp, Wimmer went on up the river. He next saw Mr. Wimmer during that trip at Mr. Fowler's camp about half way between Last Chance Creek and Crossing of the Fathers. he was alone in a row boat with an outboard motor and he came down the river. R. 2420. He saw Wimmer again at Lees Ferry but he did not see him go on the river with a boat there. He has never seen Wimmer on the river since that time. He did not ride upstream from Lees Ferry with Wimmer but with Mr. Marrs. This was the first time he saw Mr. Marrs. He never saw Marrs thereafter. Marrs was a mechanic employed by the Southern California Edison Co., and it was he were employed to bundle the boats on the river. R. 2420- 2421. Besides his own boats, he saw the boat that Mr. Kolb left with the party [ at the mouth of the San Juan River], the boat in which Mr. Emory Kolb was riding, and the boat Mr. Wimmer had on the Colorado River. Those were all the boats he saw there. Wimmer's boat was a 16 foot row boat. When he left the survey camp to take the cook and rod man out, at the second camp below the San Juan, or about Mile 70 |