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Show 740 " Q. And at any other point? " A. I think once in Desolation canyon. " Q. Just how is that accomplished? " A. The boats are emptied of their loads, and then pulled out on the rocks and transported over the rocks and put back in again when one gets below the turbulent part or the difficult part. " Q. Are they pulled over by main strength, or do you put skids index then? " A. Our boats were light enough, purposely so built, so that three men had very little difficulty in portaging them over the rocks; they were dragged over; but we didn't have to use skids at any time at all." R. 1777- 1779 They met no other boats between Green River, Wyoming, and Greenriver, Utah, where they arrived October 9, 1809. R. 1779. [ Attention called to stream flow records at Greenriver, Utah, September and October, 1909. Exhibit no. 94] R. 1780. In this stretch of the Green River, the last twenty- five miles north of Greenriver, Utah, the water was fairly quiescent. There was some swift water in kit, especially around a dam site, where a dam was being constructed above Greenriver, Utah, but nothing noticeably difficult with the exception of an occasional sand- bar. There was one place, he recalls, where a river was cutting into a wooded bank, cutting it away on the eastern side. R. 1780- 81 |