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Show ( doesn't doesnt ) recall any delay 1361 in the ( trips tr'ps trps ) by reason of depths or condition of the river . His judgment of the season of the year would be that they were along in the month of August . ( R . 5287 . ) ( HYRTTM HYRUM ) H . ( TUBNEB TURNER ) For Defendant ( Record , vol . 30 , pp . 5288-5304 ) He resides at Moab , Utah , and has been there between twenty and thirty years . He is ( seventy- seventy ) nine years old and was born at Linton , Maine ; and in his younger days had experience with boats both up and down the Penobscot River . ( R . 5288-5289 . ) When he came into the Moab country , he had a few head of cattle on Indian creek . He sold out there and went back to Moab . During the years he was there , he did some ( trap- trap ) ping , and as a general thing , he used a boat pointed . at both ends . He always poled his boats , and ( didn't didnt ) use oars ; just the paddle . He would use that to ( 'cross cross ) the river to get where he could get shallow water and eddies . ( R . 5289 . ) He has been down the river as far as the upper rapids , to what is called the Butler Trail , about four miles below the mouth of the Green River and he , has walked down by the rapids . He has been down ( that -that that ) far several times . He ( couldn't couldnt ) count the ( num- num ) ber of times he has been in there with a boat , but ( -it it ) would be four , five , or six times down that far . The power used was his hands , and with a pole . . and a paddle he would pole back up the river . |