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Show ( goal ptIX3 ) just ( maneuvered maucincred ) over 376 the country at a very slow gait . ( R . 1317 . ) Between the Green and Colorado Rivers he saw : nobody living except one man living on the road , ( the -the the ) main traveled road north of Moab , right beside the road , and then there is a ranch at Valley City . ( Both -Both Both ) are on the main road north from Moab . Those are the only people he saw . ( R . 1317 . ) He saw nobody living in the area on the west side of Green River . He understands there is a ranch or two ( on oil ) the river , but ( didn't didnt ) get down to the river . ( R . 1317 . ) He remembers one ranch in that Indian Creek country . ( R . 1317 . ) On the trip taken on the Colorado River from Moab , August 4th to August ( 10th 10tli ) , 1926 , he used the ( sixteen -sixteen sixteen ) foot Evinrude boat , equipped with a six horsepower Evinrude outboard motor , the boat drawing , he ( would -would would ) say , about a foot and a half of water . ( R . 1318 . ) The party consisted of J . B . Reeside , Jr . , and ( himself hims-elf himself ) , besides which there were in the boat , two bed rolls , food for about a week , cameras and ( sur- sur ) veying instrument and a ( twenty-five twentyfive ) gallon barrel ( of -of of ) gasoline . ( R . 1318 . ) Prior to that time he had a great deal of ( ex- ex ) perience with boats ( on oil ) salt water . He has handled motor boats before . ( R . 1318 . ) The purpose of going down the river was to ( ex- ex ) amine the rock section , and they were in no hurry ; to make mileage was the least thing they desired , so to speak . ( R . 1319 . ) |