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Show 0 1346 Colonel Tasker , and ( tliey they ) went down about one hundred and ten miles below Greenriver to the Tuxedo Bottoms . He recalls going down the river , and being on it for some time in August , 1914 , with a government party . This was not the Hughes party however ; it was for the drilling . ( R . 5242 . ) Leeds went first and Hughes later , and they were sounding the river . This was in 1909 . While the drilling operations were in progress in 1914 he had a boat of his own down there . ( R . 5243 . ) He was in the Henry Mountains the fore part of the season , and they wanted his boat so he let them have it ; Ross ran it . That was on the survey party , but when they went down to drill he went with his boat and operated it while he was down there . He made several trips to Moab with his boat . He took the surveyors to Moab , up and down the ( Colo- Colo ) rado River . He ( doesn't doesnt ) remember the man Steele , who posed as a geological survey man . ( R . 5244 . ) The time of year that he made the trips ( to 'to to ) and from Moab , while he was with the 1914 government party , was from the latter part of August or first of September up to the first of November . He believes they finished the work about the first of November , and he was with the party when the drill and equipment went up the river to ( Green- Green ) river Utah . He rode in his launch . There were , two of them and the two launches each shoved a , |
