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Show tember and October the water Ill was usually stationary and low until spring except when a rise might be caused by a rain . In February and March the water would usually rise again . High water and also extreme low water and cold weather would stop our operations sometimes for ta week and sometimes for two months . There were no power boats during my time there ; the miners used small flat bottom ( home-made homemade ) boats in which to go up and down the river . My party worked principally on bars between Tickaboo and Good Hope and ( always alNvays ) above high water mark ; we never worked on the river bed itself , and water never flooded the top of the Tickaboo or Good Hope bars while I was there . I only recall the Stanton , Brown and Best parties coming down the river in boats from Green River , Utah . ( R . 3574-8 , Vol . 20 . ) The trappers I spoke of trapped beaver and otter ( prin- prin ) cipally . At times I saw them with their skins , which they would bring up to ( Hite Eite ) in their boats and there prepare the hides in the spring . This continued during the eight years I was there . In coming upstream with my boat I towed part of the way and occasionally used a bed blanket for a sail . On two occasions I saw other men using a sail . ( R . ( 3579-81P 357981P ) Vol . 20 . ) In building the scow I mentioned , I used ( 2-inch 2inch ) . lumber on the bottom and inch lumber on the sides the , bends being ( 2x6's 2x6s ) . There was a ( 10,000-pound 10000pound ) steam boiler and two pumps , weighing 1,000 pounds each , which I ( loaded loaded- loaded ) on to this scow , in addition to some supplies and a crew of six men . ( R . 3582-3 , Vol . ( 20 2o ) . ) i On one occasion I made a trip from Green River , Utah down to a . point 40 or 50 miles above the mouth of the Green River . I had a flat boat similar to the one I used on the lower Colorado for taking machinery downstream , ( al- al ) though not so large . This Green River trip was made ( late lat6 ) in August , and we ( went ivent ) down to Valentine Bottom , taking two milk cows on the boat . We had to unload them at the Green River bridge , before we could get across the bar there , and again loaded them on the boat at ( Wheeler's Wheelers ) Ranch . Just below ( Wheeler's Wheelers ) Ranch we again got stuck and unloaded the cows and proceeded on downstream , ( occasion occasion- occasion ) ally getting on a bar . I ( don't dont ) recall seeing anything but row boats on the Green River except the ferry boat . ( R . 3587-91 , Vol . 20 . ) On the Green River trip Mr . Valentine , his son , three daughters , and two granddaughters , aged about seven and twelve years , accompanied us . The women and |