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Show 278 CHARLES WARNER ANDERSON For Complainant ( R. Vol. 4- pp, 720- 758) He resides at Gallup, New Mexico, carpenter, has operated boats on the Green River, the Colorado, on the Great Salt Lake, and a little in the old country. Assisted in the construction of the City of Moab at Grand Junction, Colorado. The City of Moab was about fifty feet long, fourteen feet beam, and drew twelve or fourteen inches of water. The cabins and the finishing work on the City of Moab was done on the banks of the Green River at Greenriver, Utah. The power used was 25 horsepower Watkins engines , and the boat was propelled by two tunnel type propellers. R 720- 722. Prior to launching the City of Moab, he went down the Green River in a row boat for the purpose of surveying the river and determining the location of the channel and the depth. The trip was made in a sixteen foot rowboat or skiff. Anderson was accompanied on the trip by Mr. Yokey and Arthur Ferry. The trip was made from Greenriver, Utah, to Bluff, Utah, in March or April. R 722- 723. Considerable trouble was encountered between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the Green River as sand and gravel bars were numerous, it being necessary to push the boat over the bars. At the mouth of the Green River the party walked down the Colorado to see the first two or three cataracts and then proceeded up the Colorado River in the rowboat to Moab, encountering little or no |
