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Show Record about two and a half feet, to a point below the San Rafael, but it was not thought we could get through the river in that boat 177 with its propeller. It was a question whether we could get this motor- boat up the Green River at that stage of water. We walked 178 back up to Green River town over a rough desert country that was absolutely barren and which did not appear to us susceptible of irrigation. There we met Mr. Baldwin, when had brought this large motor- boat from Moab to Green River on a five ton truck. We decided that we could not launch the boat at Green River and investigated to see whether or not we could take the boat overland 179 to Winner's Ranch and there put it in the river. It was impossible to reach Winner's ranch overland, even with our automobile. 180 Apparently there are some possibilities of irrigation at Winner's ranch, and probably three or four hundred acres might have been irrigated with a water wheel that was located in the river near the mouth of the San Rafael. The house at the ranch has fallen in and it appears as if no one had lived there for three or four years. There is another apparently improved ranch that we saw on the east side of the river below the town of Green River, but we saw no one at that ranch. Still farther down, and three or four miles below the mouth of the San Rafael, we met a man who was living down there but I do not know whether or not he was a ranch- man and saw no signs of his ranch. It is all desert country down there, more or less rolling, hilly and broken up with washes. The road on the east side of the river is way back from the river. Ex-hibit No. 7 is a complete pictorial representation of the country 181 between Green River and Moab. We came back to Green River and next morning left with our five ton truck loaded with the canoe and large motor- boat and went down the west side of the river to a point three miles above the mouth of the San Rafael. Just as you leave Green River three is a ranch, but south of there I recall no irrigated tract, except that at the mouth of the San Rafael one might call it a ranch. There is a shack probably up |