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Show 256 " Q. Did you carry any passengers or freight? " A. Not at that time, no. " Q. Did you at any other time? " A. No sir. R. 666 " Q. Just tell me about that trip as you proceeded down the Green River. " A. We started out with perhaps as many as ten men aboard. We had a certain amount of supplies with us, anticipating we would probably be hung up in the river more or less; and we got down possibly pretty close to the San Rafael, where it empties into the Green, and we ran on to a sand bar there that gave us a good deal of trouble, that is, we ran into it pretty hard; it was a hard job to get back up again so we could get off the bar. However, we worked a good while, possibly seven or eight hours, and got afloat again and get down a few miles further and the day was gone, and we tied up, rounded in to the shore, and tied up. R. 666- 667 The boat was released by means of prying with bars and poles and use of shovels and look and tackle. After getting off the bar the boat was taken four or five miles below the mouth of the San Rafael and tied up for the night. The trip was commenced from Green-river, Utah, at about nine o'clock A. M. Aside from the trouble experience on the sand bar considerable trouble was had in getting through what is called Corkscrew, where they had no control of the boat. Between the mouth of the San Rafael and the |
