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Show Record the river above, according to what he told us. I don't know whether he had skins with him on the first trip, but he did on 3096 the last trip. The old gentleman who cam down the Colorado River said he had come via the Grand River and on down through to Lee's Ferry. He went from Lee's Ferry over to Kanab. His 3097 name was Barnes. He came down in 1921. At certain times of the year the Colorado River carries considerable driftwood at Lee's Ferry, consisting of trees six to eight feet through, some bigger ones, and from that down to very small trees - all sizes. The wood was mostly box elder, cottonwood, willow and some pinon cedar; at times there is a plank or a big sawed piece of bridge timber. Spencer used wood almost entirely for fuel. There is a big gravel bar that spreads out in the river just below the ferry; sometimes between three- quarters of a mile or a mile wide, and on this bar a lot of wood collects; Spencer would take this wood and use it for fuel. Frank T. Johnson testified on cross examination as follows; 3098 I don't remember whether Mr. Galloway told me where he 3099 came from the first time I saw him at Lee's Ferry, but on his second trip he told me he had come down the river from Green River, either Green River, Wyoming, or Green River, Utah. On further redirect examination, Frank T. Johnson stated that neither Galloway nor any of the other non went back up the river in row boats so far as he knew. 3100 In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Frank T. Johnson testified that there is a regular road from Lee's ferry to Salina and Marysvale by way of Kanab, Utah. John W. Palmer testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3101 I live at Cannonville, Utah, am a carpenter and farmer, and 3012 first came to Lee's Ferry on July 7 or 8, 1911. I helped around the machinery there for about fifteen days, being employed by the Spencer Company. On October 8, 1911, I unloaded two boilers and |