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Show 7 1 could go up the Colorado River in a motor boat from Lees Ferry to Cataract Canyon . ( R . 97 , Vol . 1 . ) Starting from the head of the first rapids in Cataract Canyon , , I believe a motor boat could have made the journey up the river to the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers and thence up the Green River to the toivn of Green River ; - this could have been done without any insurmountable difficulties . . ( Al- Al ) though there would have been plenty of trouble with sand bars and rocks , those dangers could be successfully avoided if the persons in charge of the boats knew their business , , and I am sure that it could be done . ( R . 98 , Vol . . 1 . ) The process of lining boats around rapids is equivalent to the old portage with lighter boats , ( R . 99 , Vol . 1 . ) The trip from the town of Green River to Lees Ferry consumed about sixteen days . ( R . 74 , Vol . 1 . ) Arthur A . Baker of the U . S . G . S . testified : I made a trip in a small boat equipped with an Evinrude motor from Moab to the oil well ( twenty-eight twentyeight ) miles below , and on another occasion made the same trip in a slightly larger boat ( belong- belong ) ing to the Moab Garage Company . On the first of these trips I knew nothing about the channel and frequently ran on sand bars . On the second ( trip h-ip hip ) the boat was operated by Virgil Baldwin who was able to pick the channel but had to watch carefully . ( R . 110-12 , Vol . 1 . ) During my first two years at Moab the Moab Garage Company was operating boats throughout the entire period , making trips every few days ; while they were running one boat they made possibly two trips a week , and for a time they ran two boats . . I would say that they made more than one hundred river trips , carrying oil equipment and supplies during that time . . ( R . . 113-15 , Vol . 1 . ) 1 did not go to the oil wells in an automobile because it would have been a very arduous task to reach the places to ( "which which vhich ) I wanted to go in that manner and I desired to observe things along the river . ( ( R . 124-5 , Vol . 1 . ) WilliMn Glen Hoyt of the U . S . G . S . testified : I went from Washington , D . C . to Green River , Utah , for the ( pur- pur ) pose of making the examinations to which I refer in my testimony , arriving at Green River on September 27 , 1928 ( R . . 271-2 , Vol . . 2 ) , , accompanied by Mr . Moyer , one of the attorneys of record in this case . ( R . 278 , Vol . 2 . . ) 1 knew that the sole purpose of our trip was to bring ( -back back ) facts |
