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Show Record well to be drilled down there. I am familiar with the bed of the Green River from Castle Creek to the Junction. I have been on the river in all kinds of boats, motor boats, row boats and sail boats. The scow has never been farther down the river than Lockhart Canyon, that is 40 miles. In traveling on the river in row boats and motor boats I have encountered sand bars. Generally we find them in the same place. Except occasionally you are able to avoid the sand bars in navigating the river. I have stuck on sand bars a good many times, but not for any length of time. I recall a boat known as the " Undine". I have no financial interest in it. It was 60 feet long, round bottom, steam boat. By recollection would be that it drew about 18 inches. I 967 saw it at Moab twice. I do not know whether it made one trip or two, but it went up the river. I know what became of it. They started to go from Moab up to Cisco, and they got on the Nigger Bill riffle, and got the boat sidewise in the riffle and turned it over, and then abandoned it. That was in 1900, I think. It was there for a long time. It was turned right over on some rocks where it couldn't get away. I haven't seen it for two or three 968 years. Nigger Bill Creek is about 4 miles above Moab. The boat's 969 was steam. Complainant's exhibit No. 121, being a picture of the Undine, was received in evidence. We had better luck in operating the scow in high water. We never operated the boat at night to my knowledge. I think if you run a scow through the slide on the Colorado you would have to have a capstan line there. You might 971 go through there with the scow empty, however. R. C. Clark testified on cross examination as follows: Since I started to operate boats on the river I have taken whatever business was offered. I have had four boats all told - 134- |