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Show 23 the event that it turned out to be a commercial field , , I believe that it would b3 more economical to construct a road . . ( R . 1007 , Vol . 5 . ) I made a trip from Moab to Shafer No . 1 Well ( R . 1035 , Vol . 6 ) , and we got stuck on a sand bar going down . On the upstream trip I believe we struck a sand bar once . ( R . 1036 , Vol . 6 . ) John ( Galloivay Galloway ) testified : I have boated on the Green River from almost its starting point to Lees Ferry and on the Grand River from Westwater to the mouth of the Green . . ( R . 1041 , Vol . 6 . ) In April or May , 1926 , my brother and I went from Westwater to Moab in a ( 16-foot 16foot ) row boat with a ( 5-foot 5foot ) beam , drawing only 4 inches of water loaded . From Westwater Canyon down the water was sluggish in places and in other places would break over little riffles . ( R . . 1040-5 , Vol . 6 . ) 1 think I could take a row boat up from Moab to Westwater Canyon but could ndt row all the way up . ( R . 1045-6 , Vol . 6 . ) . In February or March , 1925 , my brother and I , with the same boat I have mentioned , went rfom the mouth of the Green River up to Moab , consuming five days in reaching Shafer Well No . 1 , where we put our boat on to the big motor boat and rode up to Moab . ( R . 1047-9 , Vol . 6 . ) It is not difficult to row a boat up through the Slide on the Colorado and we did so , but we probably towed the boat ( two-thirds twothirds ) of the distance upstream . ( R . 1050 , Vol . 6 . ) We would row where it was not convenient to reach and pull the boat with our tow line . When we were riding on the big barge it had a little trouble at a sand bar just below Moab . ( R . 1051 , Vol . 6 . ) In December , 1927 , my brother and I made a boat trip from the Junction up to Lockhart . There was ice running in the river , so we left our boats there , walked up to Oil Camp No . 1 , where we took passage on the Moab Garage boat to Moab . I recall no difficulty encountered by that boat on that trip , although it seems to me we kind of stuck on bars two or three times . The floating ice ( didn't didnt ) seem to bother it . ( R . 1053-4 , Vol . 6 . ) In February following we went back to Lockhart and trapped for beaver the rest of the winter between Lockhart and Moab . ( R . . 1055 , Vol . 6 . ) On my different trips on the Green River I have noticed some difference in the channel of the river , but those changes do not occur frequently in that stretch of the country . ( R . 1058-9 , Vol . 6 . ) The Green River does not freeze over every winter in that section and , I do not believe the Colorado River freezes over above the mouth of the Green in that region . ( R . 1060-1 , Vol . 6 . ) 1 |