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Show William Hyde testified - 131 1 ( am wn ) 53 years old , now live at Monticello , and in the early ( '90s 90s ) , lived at Bluff for three years . During the three years I lived at Bluff I saw boats taken down to the river south of town , and I saw miners in their boats with their supplies start down the river from Bluff . I have seen a number of different boat parties of this character leave ( Bluff-10 Bluff10 ) or 12 , possibly more . I also saw carpenters ( building- building building ) boats at Bluff . ( R . 4432-4 , Vol . 25 . ) _ Seven or eight years ago another man and I left ( Moab Moab' Moab ) in November with two row boats on a trapping expedition and continued down the river into Cataract Canyon as far down as the fourth or fifth rapid . We trapped there for a little over a mouth , and then brought our boats back up through the cataracts and to Moab in February . On this trip we took all of our supplies and camp outfit with us from Moab . On the return journey we took our furs with us in our boats and shipped part of them to Denver and part to Grand Junction . Our furs included wild cat , fox , coyotes and beaver . In coming back up through Cataract Canyon it was difficult , and we towed . ( R . 4434-8 , Vol . 25 . ) On that trapping expedition I passed another trapper from Colorado in a row boat ; I also passed Mr . Turner , who was trapping . I had very little trouble with sand bars ; I have run on to them when I ( wasn't wasnt ) watching where I was going , but never got into trouble if I was paying attention . ( R . 4439-40 , Vol . 25 . ) The following year I left Green River , Utah , about October 1st with another man . We had two boats and trapped for beaver along the Green River to the junction , and thence went up the Colorado River to Moab , arriving there in February . We carried our beaver skins in our boats with us and shipped them from Moab to Salt Lake City . The year before the Colorado River ( didn't didnt ) freeze , although we had a little mush ice running on our way out , but the next year the Green River froze for about thirty days , it being an exceptionally cold winter . However ' the ( Colo- Colo ) rado did not freeze that winter , there being only a little mush ice in the stream . During the time the Green River was frozen the ice was from one to two inches ( -not not ) thick enough for me to slide my boat over . Ice was the only difficulty encountered on this expedition . ( R . ( 444T-5 444T5 ) , Vol . 25 . ) On my second trapping expedition I ( didn't didnt ) find the channel in the Colorado River exactly the same as it was |