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Show He wanted to get on to 910 the opposite side of the river because there was a trail there , and it was the only way in ( which wldch ) lie could get down to Moab . When ( he lie ) ( swam swain ) over to get the boat ( he lie ) did not have in ( mind inind ) getting it to go down the river . ( R . 3595 . ) He ( went weiit ) from Greenriver to Cisco with the idea of getting saddle horses to take down to Richardson [ on the Colorado River ] . From there , he expected to go to Moab , and was going down the river for the purpose of inspecting specific placer bars , which were located about thirty miles below Cisco and seven miles above where the canyon boxes up below the ] ( Rich- Rich ) ardson post office . ( R . 3597 . ) He does not recall any boat available except the ( water-soaked watersoaked ) boat which he swam across the river to get ; and did not take material with him to build a boat ; they would have got a boat to go down in if they could have , but they could not . He does not know if the place where Valentine and his family stopped , when he took them down the Green River in 1896 , is known as Valentine Bottoms . The persons comprising the family were Mr . ( Valen Valen- Valen ) tine his son Lee three daughters and two ( grand grand- grand ) , , , children . One of the grandchildren was twelve or fifteen years old , and the other , six or seven years old . The women and children were in rowboats . ( R . 3601 - ) |