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Show boatman and was the same 883 witness that testified at Denver . ( R . 3937-3938 . ) Bert Loper ( had bad ) ( charge cliarge ) of one of the boats , Blake the second , and Leigh Lint was the third boatman . R . 3939 . ) It is admitted by counsel that his testimony would be substantially the same as ( has lias ) been previously testified to by Messrs . Loper , Lint , and Blake . He made a trip north from Greenriver , Utah , by pack train , July 9 to 12 , 1925 . They ( had bad ) a guide and a saddle horse apiece , and a pack horse to carry beds and supplies . The purpose of the trip was to see the rocks along the river at more leisure than he had had opportunity to do when he went through with the Trimble party . He was interested in getting more detail of the succession of rock layers ; to determine what rock formations there were between Greenriver and the McPherson ranch , which happened to lie just above one of the pronounced changes in topography . This ranch is just above what are known as the Rome Cliffs . The ( ultimate -q1timate q1timate ) object of the examination bore chiefly on the thickness of the rocks above the south . face of the Book Cliffs , where there were coal beds . There were parties mapping the coal beds . ( R . 3939-3940 . ) It was his place to know the thickness of the rocks above the coal beds ; to determine how far back one would have to go to reach the line beyond which the depth to those coal beds would make them ( inconsider- inconsider ) able as a commercial fact . ( R . 3941 . ) The Trimble party dealt only with topography , the relief and fall of the river , and such engineering ( de- de ) |
