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Show 841 to Thompson springs, and on to Salt Lake City. R. 1986. " Q. Why couldn't you get out at that time -- why couldn't you go on further down? " Q. MR FARNSWORTH: He said he couldn't get a boat. " A. In the first place we couldn't get a boat, that suited us, and then the people told us we couldn't do it." R. 1886. Heardy evidence ordered stricken R. Vol. 11- p. 1986. He had all the trouble and the work with the raft he wanted by the time he got to Moab. R. 1986. The miners that he saw at the north end of the Blue Mountains on the Colorado River had a flat bottomed skiff that they used when they went down from Grand Junction, and there were two or three small row boats used to cross back and forth, and he saw the ferry boat there. He didn't go into the town of Moab, but camped on the right hand side of the river, and then walked and about thirty miles north to the railroad at Thompson Springs, and went on to Salt Lake City. R. 1987. That same winter he went east as far as Rock Springs, Wyoming, and went to work there, and in the spring of 1889 he heard about the Brown- Stanton party, and he went to Denver as quickly as he could get money enough to take him, to get on the trip if possible. when he got to Denver he found the party had gone, and he was too late; he stayed in Denver. After their wreck, the Brown- Stanton party got back, he believes, in July. Mr. Brown, the starter of the expedition, had been drowned, and Mr. Stanton was going back. He saw Mr. Stanton, and got on the party. " My former trip through the Grand River |