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Show Record Goat Island, and you can take your choice of channels on either side of the island. When we were coming upstream in the Cliff Dweller we made a choice and were there stuck on coarse, gravel 3251 rock. Tom Wimmer and I got in a skiff and started to take a line ashore, but didn't have enough depth of water to manipulate the oars on the skiff and drifted downstream. Finally I jumped over-board and waded to shore with a line, which I tied to an old stump, and with the aid of the capstan the Cliff Dweller got up the riffle and finally up to the town of Green River. I remember a steamboat known as the Black Eagle, which was 3252 not half as large as the Cliff Dweller. It was launched just above the railroad bridge at Green River, and I fired the boat while it crossed the river, angling upstream half a mile as we crossed. We tied the boat up on shore at that point and I do not know what Mr. Yokey did with the boat after that. We only made just a little trial trip to try out the boiler and engine. This was in 1908 or 1909, and so far as I know, that is the first trip 3253 the Black Eagle made, and I have never seen the boat since. I was not down to the river frequently during the days of which I have been testifying; I was down to the river only once in a year per-haps. I made a trip in the side- wheel, gasoline boat belonging to Mr. Wolverton and known as the Wilmont. this trip was taken in the fall, probably the latter part of September, 1909, and its purpose 3254 pose was to hunt deer. We went down to the Narrows, located about sixty miles below the town of Green River in another gasoline beat that was called the Dispatch and belonged to J. S. Ladd. There were four others an the party beside myself, and at the Narrows we 3255 caught up with the Wilmont. On the Downstream trip the Dispatch got stuck before we reached Wolverton ranch, where we intended to camp for the night; it was late in the evening and we camped on the shore and started out next morning, encountering no further |