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Show 150 railroad over a truck highway and 200 miles to Green River by boat and I ( don't dont ) call it feasible to haul 200 miles when you can haul 35 miles by truch . , ( R . 4853 , Vol . 27 . . ) There are more rapids on the Colorado River between Halls Crossing and Warm Creek than there are on the Green River between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green . I would say that there is ( practi- practi ) ( cally eally ) no difference between the last mentioned section of the Green and the last mentioned section of the Colorado in going downstream because there is plenty of water in both sections . Going upstream the current is a little stronger on the Colorado than on the Green so that in coming ( up- up ) stream on the Colorado a little more power would be ( re- re ) quired than in going upstream on the Green . ( R . 4855-7 , Vol . 27 . ) The practicability of navigation up and ( down- down ) stream on the section of the Colorado River just mentioned is substantially the same as on the Green River . ( R . 4858 , Vol . 27 . ) ( Mrs ItIrs ) . Allien Russon testified : I reside in Salt Lake f City , am 22 years old and was born at Moab , Utah . When I lived in Moab I made several boat trips on the Colorado River and have seen many others at Moab use boats up and down that river . My first power boat trip was about May 7 1925 when I went from Moab to Well No . 1 and return , , on the large Moab Garage boat . The boat was not stalled at any place and there were no navigation difficulties . . The first part of September of the same year I made a trip from Moab to Well No . 1 and return in a . small motor boat , two boys and another girl being ( with w-ith with ) me . . So far as I am . aware no member of the party had had any former experience with motor boats or on the Colorado River except one of the boys who said he had made one trip . . That boy piloted the boat on the downstream trip except for two miles , , when I piloted it . We encountered no sand bars or other difficulties on that ( trip -trip trip ) . ( R . 4865-70 , , Vol . . 27 . ) W . F . Reeder testified : I first went to Green River , , Utah , in 1921 , and for a time made my home at Elgin on the east bank of the river opposite Green River , , Utah . . ( ( R . 5 4870-3 , Vol . 27 . ) In August , , 1902 , I went down the Green River to the head of Cataract Canyon and back with a ( com- com ) panion in a row boat 16 feet ( long" long long ) and 4 feet wide , , taking our supplies with us . Between 1902 and 1906 1 took these trips on the Green River to the junction and on one trip |