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Show ( Chwrles Chw-les Chwles ) Warner Anderson 17 testified : I helped ( build -build build ) the City of Moab , which was equipped with two ( 25-horsepower 25horsepower ) engines . It was a double decker with six cabins on each side . ( R . 721-2 , Vol . 4 . ) Before my trip in the City of Moab , I went with two other men from Green River , Utah , to Moab in a ( 16-foot 16foot ) boat with two sets of oars . We hit some sand bars between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green , but had no particular trouble going up the Colorado River to ( Moab Xoab ) except hard rowing . We went up the Slide without noticing it . This trip consumed ten days . ( R . 724 , Vol . 4 . ) We were about four or five days going from Green River , Utah , to the junction of the rivers . ( R . 728 , Vol . 4 . ) Our trip back up the Green River with the City of Moab was practically the same as going down , only it was not so hard because we could back off the sand bars . We encountered no sand bars in Stillwater Canyon , and there was plenty of water there , but did get on bars in Labyrinth Canyon and had some trouble at the mouth of the San Rafael . ( R . 732-3 , Vol . 4 . ) Next fall , I again saw the City of Moab after it had been remodeled . We went down as far as Valentine Bottom , located about a hundred miles below the town of Green ( Eiver River ) , in the remodeled boat . They had put in a new engine and a stern wheel and had made the boat 10 feet longer . We used coal as fuel . The ( stern stem ) wheel helped us in getting off sand bars , but our trip was much like the former trip . ( R . 735-8 , Vol . 4 . ) ( I 1 ) ( can't cant ) say whether the channel of the river changed but the sand shifted about . We did not have very much trouble coming back upstream from Valentine Bottom until we reached the gravel bars . ( R . 739 , Vol . 4 . ) When I made the trip up to Moab in the small boat and made soundings , I arrived at the ( con- con ) clusion that there would be no serious difficulty in operating the City of Moab on the two rivers . That trip was made at low water , and at that same stage of water we would have had no difficulty in going up through the Slide with the City of Moab . ( R . 743-5 , Vol . 4 . ) When we made the trip in the remodeled boat , our objective was Valentine Bottom , and when we reached that objective we Iaround and came back with only the incidental difficulties I have mentioned . ( R . 746 , Vol . 4 . ) I cannot tell whether the channel of the river was in the ( same -same same ) place on my second trip as it was on my first trip ; that is a difficult thing for any one to do . ( R . . 751-3 , Vol . 4 . ) The remodeled boat was called The |
