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Show Record a certain amount of supplies on board. At the mouth of the San 667 Rafael we run on to a sand bar pretty hard. We were 7 or 8 hours 668 getting off of it. Between Green River and the mouth of the San Rafael we had considerable trouble getting through the Corkscrew. After getting through that we went into quiet water and we got along very well with the exception of encountering a few sand bars 669 down to the mouth of the Green River. We were about 5 days, it 670 seems to me, getting down to the mouth of the Green River. From the mouth of the Green River we proceeded up the Grand or Colorado River about 3 or 4 miles where we encountered a big slide, which our boat was not capable of making at all. We tried to make the slide but it turned us around and the we went into the bank of the river 671 without suffering any damage to the boat. We stayed there for a while and tried to figure out some way we could get up to Moab, but decided that we could not do it with our equipment and started back to Green River. We had considerable trouble getting up the Green 672 River. The was very high and sometimes we would take the wrong channel and have to go back and get in the right one. We had a lot of trouble of that kind. We made soundings principally going down the stream and a few going up stream. We were gone perhaps 673 two weeks on that trip. We got up the Green River as far as 674 Halverson's or Wolverton's ranch, where we tied up the boat. Charles Anderson was the pilot on the boat. Before starting on the 675 trip we made a preliminary survey of the river; that is we sent out a row boat to make soundings and locate the channel. The row boat 676 came back up the river again. The City of Moab was thereafter taken away from Green River. 678 John J. Lumsden testified on cross examination as follows: My foreman and I designed the boat. I was interested 679 in the enterprise. I had never been on the Green River before except to cross it on a ferry boat and by horse. I had never seen that stretch of the Green River between Green River, Utah, and the - 103- 1219 |