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Show Record came back. We decided it would take too long to get up there. 1191 On that part of the Colorado River between Moab and Castle creek I have taken the Evinrude boat and the passenger boat above Moab about 3 miles to Nigger Bill. It would have been foolish to attempt to pass Nigger Bill creek because of big boulders in the creek. We were up there at different times on fishing trips and probably once or twice a year we would go up there for the purpose of trying out a boat. I do not know of any supplies or other merchandise of any importance being transported on the Colorado River except that which I transported by the boats of the Moab Garage. The U. S. G. L. O. 1192 Party was down there and some material was hauled for them. During the winter of 1924 and 1925 the Colorado River was frozen over from December until about the last of March, 1925. That was an unusual year. I have not seen it frozen over since. Sometimes short stretches of the river will freeze over when the rest of the river will not. In January, 1926, I think it was, I went down the stream with a boatload of material and came back the next day at noon. The ice had jammed ahead of us and we couldn't get through. During all the time I have been there since 1921 I have only seen the river frozen over the once, in January. The ice jams in a narrow place will probably back the water up for a half a mile. The last time I remember such an ice jam remained four or five weeks. 1194 Virgil Baldwin testified on cross examination as follows: There was an ice condition in 1928 similar to the one I referred to in 1925. In 1926 the ice was heavier. We used dynamite in 1926. In 1926 we got the boat through, and in 1926 the condition 1195 was worse than in 1925 or 1928. I got the boat back to Moab through the ice in 1926. In 1926 the ice clog was in the gorge. We took the boat back down to Frank Shafer well No. 1 and tied it up there. Each day we would go up to the gorge and work on the ice trying to break a channel trough. We brought some dynamite down on the passenger boat to the gorge. We had to send a truck to Grand Junction for the powder. We probably had the powder there at the gorge within two |
