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Show Old Mormon trail , we went 699 by . The difficulty is to get ( water vater ) . The road is so badly obliterated we had an awfully hard ( time thne ) finding watering places for our stock and ourselves , too . Some places had to go down steps ; there is Indian steps they chipped in the rocks ; you go down and pull up a bucket of water and give it to your animals . ( R . 2643 . ) It took two days and ( one-half onehalf ) to go from Bluff to the Colorado River . The crossing at the foot of White Canyon is a recognized ford across the Colorado River ; that is where all the travel ( went Yent ) between the two counties ; had occasion to go that way ; they had quite a ( good-sized goodsized ) boat there , they ferried across the whole outfit , even ( large 'large large ) enough to put on a wagon and team and all to put across . ( R . 2643-2644 . ) A fellow named Cass Hite owned the ferry at ( that -that that ) ( time thile ) . The boat was probably twelve feet wide , nosed in front , and about thirty feet long . It was rowed across ( the t4e ) river . ( R . 2644 . ) Recalled for , Further Examination . ( R . , Vol . 15 , pp . 2646-2647 ) : He ( has lias ) been living at Hanksville since ( 1895 1-895 ) ; ( sorry -sorry sorry ) to tell it , there was a population of about ( one -one one ) ( hundred hulidred ) and ( twenty-five twentyfive ) , one hundred and fifty people there when he got in , and it is rather ( de- de ) creasing instead of increasing since ; probably one hundred left now . Hanksville is ( termed terined ) sort of a . junction ; you come in from the west and you come in from the ( north uorth ) and all of it has got to go through |