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Show Record After our one hundred mile trip the river and back up to the town of Green River in the Cliff Dweller, Mr. Lumsden told me and his foreman, Mr. Anderson, that we could go ahead and operate the Cliff Dweller during the next season if we would stand 3420 all the expenses. Anderson and I started in in good faith, but when Lumsden made the sale of the boat we released him from his agreement. Anderson and I merely had a verbal agreement with the owner of the boat, pursuant to which he gave us the privilege of fitting it up, we thought some changes should be made and we were going to be allowed to keep all we could make out of the boat 3421 during the coming season. When the owner received a cash offer for his boat we released him from the contract. The Cliff Dweller had a draft of sixteen or eighteen inches, and I am sure that when we started down the river with seven tons of coal on board it had a draft of about twenty inches. 3422 A boat with an eighteen inch draft would require two feet or more of water, and where the river splits up into two or more channels and at a real low stage of water, you wouldn't find that depth, although there is no time in the year except at real low water when there would not be such a channel in the Green River between the town of the Green River down to the mouth of the stream. 3423 I have lost track of the number of times I have been down to the mouth of the Green River. Some years I have made that trip three or four five times; other years not more than once or twice. If a party came along I was always ready to take 3424 them down. Some years there are spots between the town of Green River and the mouth of the Green River where you couldn't find, at low water, a channel for a twenty- four foot boat drawing a foot of water, on account of the river being split up into two or more Channels; if you had all the water in one channel, you would sufficient water. |