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Show On these expeditions he 1362 got furs and would bring them back to Moab in ( hte U4 ) boat . The only time ( he lie ) towed any would be when he would get tired of poling and it ( wasn't wasnt ) because ( he lie ) ( couldn't couldnt ) pole , but it was a little rest to get out where there were bars or sand and to tow along a little way . He had no trouble going up around the Slide at , all , only he ( couldn't couldnt ) get bottom with his pole ; it was fifty or one hundred feet , where he ( couldn't couldnt ) reach bottom . He used about a ( sixteen-foot sixteenfoot ) pole , , fourteen to sixteen feet . As far as sounding is ( con-- con ) cerned he has tried enough so he knows he ( couldn't couldnt ) strike bottom with his pole to get enough ( pressure- pressure pressure ) to shove the boat upstream . ( R . 5290-5291 . ) On these trips he would take five , six , or seven hundred pounds . He has taken several shorter trips ; he ( couldn't couldnt ) tell the dates . He knows of ten or fifteen trips that he has taken down from Moab and clear on to the junction , and has made a good many short trips . The kind of furs he would get would be mink , fox , . and coyotes , and he has trapped beaver for the state . . He has trapped down the river to the junction ( and and' and ) up the Green River for some distance ; fifty miles ( or or- or ) probably more . He has been up as far as what was > called Upheavel Bottom , and above Mr . ( Anderson's Andersons ) . This was with a boat similiar to the type he has ( men men- men ) tioned , and he would pole on those trips with ( anchor- anchor ) ice running in the river . |