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Show Record 1907, when I went to the head of Westwater Canyon and placer 3491 mined during that winter, doing some work in Richardson Valley, located ten or fifteen miles above the Cisco pumping plant. We had one good boat about fourteen feet long and probably three and 3492 a half feet wide, with a draft loaded of seven or eight inches. We also had an old type scow, fourteen or fifteen feet long and three and a half feet wide, with a draft of six inches loaded. With these boats we went on down the river from Richardson Valley to Moab. There is some rough water at the mouth of the various washes in Richardson Valley. At probably half a dozen places there was swift and rough water that we call rapids. They were in that section located from eighteen to twenty- five miles above Moab. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Mr. Mendenhall testified that the rough water he referred to was 3493 mostly at and above Castle Creek; that there is one rapid at the mouth of Castle Creek and one other place below Castle Creek, towit , the mouth of Salt Wash, where the water is fairly rough but is not bad. Resuming his direct examination Mr. Mendenhall testified: We continued on down to Cataract Canyon, prospecting along the way where we found gravel. We had worked through the winter in Richardson Valley, and the river trip from there down was made, I think, in March and April. The last gravel we encountered was at the mouth of Indian Creek, and from there on we went on without stopping until we reached the Cataracts. Between Richardson Valley and the Cataracts we saw a boat that the cattle men were using in 3494 Jackson Basin, located where the oil wells were later sunk and below that location. We did not intend to go through Cataract Canyon but only to such distance as we thought it would be safe to go and from which we could return. We went down to what we call the eleventh rapid and decided that it would be a pretty hard trip to get our boats back upstream and we left them there. We proceeded |