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Show would ( estimate eatimate ) ( that thftt ) the 1392 change ( from fron-i froni ) a ( stem stern ) to the ( side-wheel sidewheel ) cost in the neighborhood of one hundred ( twenty-five twentyfive ) dollars . The fourteen horsepower engine added about five hundred fifty dollars . He ( doesn't doesnt doesi-ft doesift ) believe there were any more alterations or changes in the ( Wilmont 'ihnont ihnont ) . Altogether , he made five or six trips to ( Moab 2Moab ) . At least five of the trips were made for compensation , carrying passengers , ( sight-seers sightseers ) , or hunters , and one of them was made for experimental purposes or pleasure . ( R . 5399 . ) He is sort of a hunter himself and when he took out the hunting parties he acted as guide . During this same period of time , he took several trips in the Wilmont , that went as far up the Colorado River as Lockhart or Indian Creek . These were up past the Slide and he would say there were twelve or fifteen of these trips that were for the purpose of taking tourists , ( sight-seers sightseers ) , or hunters . ( R . 5400 . ) He took about thirty trips on the ( Wilmont ff'ihnont ffihnont ) down to the junction at which times he did not go up the Grand River . Some of them were hunting trips and some he took ( sight-seers sightseers sight-see sightsee ) down . None of these trips were when he was prospecting on his own account . When he has done some prospecting around the junction , he was invariably paid for it by Eastern people that he took down . In addition to this , he has taken probably half a dozen trips in the Wilmont as far as Valentine Bottom . ( R . 5401 . ) These trips extended over a period of five years , 1903 to 1908 . |