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Show Record Eddy had any experience in navigation, we encountered on the earlier portion of that journey considerable more trouble than we 1145 otherwise would have encountered. From Greenriver or Moab downward on either the Green or the Colorado I made only the one trip with my father as a boy. On the Howland trip from North wash to Lees Ferry in March, 1928, we had more water than on the upper stretches above the mouth of the Green. We did no surveying so as to determine the 1147 depth of the channel over that stretch of the river. As to the depth of the water, in places on the river you will find 3 or 4 feet of water for a distance of probably a quarter of a mile and then the river spreads out in sand bars and gets shallow and over 1148 those stretches you would have to look for the channel, and some-times there was difficulty in determining just where the channel was. 1149 I made a contract with Mr. Howland to take him over that stretch of the river from the North wash down to Lees Ferry. He paid me and agreed compensation for my services in that connec- 1150 tion. The boats were built for that purpose. It took us about three weeks to make the trip. We were prospecting and exploring the river on the way down. Both my brother and me went on pros- 1151 pecting tours, and Mr. Howland did some prospecting also. There was a man named Richmond who went with my father on his first trip through the Grand Canyon from Flaming Gorge down through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 1155 Virgil Baldwin testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I am 41 years old. In March, 1925, I started to operate a boat on the Colorado River. 1156 I have operated three small boats and one large boat on the Colorado River. One of the boats was 27 feet long, 5 feet wide, drew 10 inches of water with ordinary load, has seats set in and - 153- |