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Show The next time lie was 391 on the Colorado River ( it I't It ) was January the 24th to February ( 2nd 21id ) , 1926 . ( R . 1350 . ) On that trip ( he lie ) had a boat owned by the Moab ( Garage Garfige ) Company , about sixteen feet long , five feet ( wide 'wide wide ) ; it would draw from twelve to fourteen ( inches ilielies ) , of water , depending on the load ; this was motored by a Ford ( engine encrine ) , and the propeller was properly inclosed with a grill to keep them from injury on ( sand -sand sand ) bars , and on ice and ( stumps Aumps ) . ( R . 1351 . ) His companion ( on oil ) that trip was A . Smith of Grand Junction , who had been in the employ of ( the -the the ) Moab garage for sometime previous . On that trip ( he lie ) went down to the head of ( Cat- Cat ) aract Canyon , slightly over five miles below the confluence of the two [ Green and Colorado ] Rivers . ( Starting -Starting Starting ) out of Moab , Utah , they were fairly ( heav heav- heav ) ily loaded ; they had ( sixty-five sixtyfive ) gallons of gas and . five gallons of oil with them ; they commenced to ( en- en ) ( counter -counter counter ) trouble after leaving milepost 39 , which is ( the -the the ) second camp of the Midwest Refining Company . Prior to that time they had trailed the boat in part , and it ( had bad ) been drifting part of the way . ( R . 1351 . ) By trailing the boat he ( means mem-is memis ) with a ( iowline towline ) , because they were riding on the large freight boat of the Moab Garage to the structure . ( R . 1351 , 1352 . ) Started in from mile post 39 to ( drive c1rive ) it under its own power all the way . Left big boat there . . Going down , both the big boat and the small boat |