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Show He was connected with ( 1372 137-0- ) Mr . ( Bennett's Bennetts ) enterprises on the river , having worked for him there . ( R . 5325 . ) He never brought any of the rafts upstream . When ( he lie ) went down to Independence bar ( he lie ) went out by way of ( Hall's Halls ) Creek . When lie reached his destination the material of which the raft was built was used . Most of his supplies were purchased at Richfield and Loa , Utah , none coining from ( Green- Green ) river , Utah . ( R . 5326 . ) EDWIN T . WOLVERTON For ( Defendant efendant ) ( Record , vol . 30 , pp . 5327-5376 ) ( Record , vol . 31 , pp . 5387-5425 ) He is ( sixty-seven sixtyseven ) years of age , a mining and civil engineer by profession . He has followed his ( profes profes- profes ) sion about forty years . ( R . 5327 . ) He has lived in or near Greenriver , Utah , having come there first in 1900 . Prior to his arrival there he had had some boating experience when he was a boy on the Penobscot river in Maine . Following his arrival at Greenriver , he had a ranch down , the Green River about ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles from the town . He went into the country for his health and ( be- be ) came interested in manganese deposits there , he ( hav- hav ) ing discovered some deposits on the east side of the Green River about twenty miles below Greenriver , Utah . ( R . 5328 . ) The manganese claim in which he was interested , he patented and disposed of to ( the -the the ) Colorado Fuel & Iron Company . There are ( other -other other ) manganese deposits in the vicinity , but none in place . ( R . 5329 . ) |