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Show Record now and in the last few years I know of no lumber having been brought to Moab from Castle Valley. L. L. Taylor testified on cross examination as follows: The lumber I speak of was rafted down the river from a 2866 point approximately twenty miles above Moad. The point from which it was rafted would be above Castle Creek and I have a personal recollection of a general use of river for that 2868 purpose when I was a boy. I only know of one sawmill that was operated in the Lasal mountains. This mill was operated by T. W. Branson and sons, and the rafting down of sawed lumber extended over a period of several years. I would say it was at least 2869 twenty- five years ago. The rafts seemed large to me, but it is difficult for me to describe them and I don't know how they were built. I would say that a raft would be forty or fifty in length, maybe more, and possibly have a width of approximately half that distance. The cargo of lumber would extend for a little distance above the top of the raft. I think the rafts would contain several thousand feet of lumber and it was the easiest way they had to get lumber down the river because the road was very bad. 2870 Usually there would be two or three men on the raft with poles. I know that equipment of various kinds, including machinery or equipment in need of repair, and other freight of that character, came up the Colorado River from points below Moab. I remember several instances of people coming down the Colorado River in boats to Moab prior to the time when the Moab Garage Company 2871 started to operate. I think those people who came down to Moab in boats supplied themselves at Moab and continued on their journey, and have personal knowledge of people coming down the river 2872 to Moab and then going with their boats up or down the river. I recall the Undine coming upstream to Moab, and I remember that the 2873 Undine came several times. I personally saw it arrive on several occasions but would not undertake to say how many passengers 383 |