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Show Further examination 1298 ( R . , Vol . 29 , pp . 5088- 5090 ) : When he took the Chandler boat down to ( the- the them ) junction of the rivers he personally operated the boat and went down through the Slide all right , because he had been through it before , in 1910 , and was looking for it . In 1910 , his first experience , he : made a trip from ( Wolverton's Wolvertons ) Ranch to Lockhart , and back . ( R . 5088 . ) ( The 116 ) 1910 trip was a hunting trip , in October , in , 1910 ; two other fellows , Mr . Eldred , he was the ( cashier- cashier ) in the bank at Greenriver , and Mr . George Beeson , a rancher at Greenriver , and himself , decided to go hunting down the river , so they engaged E . T . ( Wolverton's Wolvertons ) boat ; he has a ranch about ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles below Greenriver ; they drove down there , and took the propeller boat there . It has a propeller in a tunnel ; and we made that trip down to the junction , ( wfent wbnt ) up through the Slide ; as near as he remembers , , that was nineteen years ago ; they went up in the . vicinity of Lockhart , along there . They were gone , eighteen days on that trip . Had a very nice trip . . ( R . 5089 . ) The trip was commenced in October and they got back about the 1st of November . They went through the Slide under power , the water being . swifter at that time than it was when he went through with the Chandler boat from Moab . ( R . 5090 . ) Redirect examination ( R - . , Vol . 29 , p . 5090 ) : He ( didn't didnt ) have any trouble with sand bars on that trip to speak of . He would hit them once in a while . |