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Show with a load of 500 pounds . 165 On our way up we camped at the mouth of Castle Creek and next day went about 2 miles farther upstream . . We did not tow the boat but rowed it all the way upstream , including that stretch of water at Nigger Bill and at Castle Creek . We had two sets of oars . . We came back downstream to Moab ( w-ith with ) a raft ( containing1 containing ) about 6000 feet of lumber , trailing the raft behind our boat . . At the mouth , , of Castle Creek the raft was stuck on a rock for about fifteen minutes but we got it off and had no other difficulties on our return journey . ( R . 5180-4 , , Vol . . 29 ) Although I personally saw only one raft of lumber , , I know that for a period of 8 or 10 years Moab lumber was hauled in wagons from the river up to town and there was no other way for the lumber to get there on the river except by rafts . . ( R . 5185-7 , Vol . 29 . ) Francis M . ( Sliafer Shafer ) testified : In November , 1888 , , my brother built a raft at the mouth of Cisco Wash , 35 miles upstream from Moab and we loaded on to it a chest of ( car- car ) penter tools , some trunks , ( bedding- bedding ) , supplies , material for a rocker , , etc . , all ( aggregating- aggregating aggregating ) in weight at least 500 pounds , , and started down the river to do some placer mining at the mouth , of Castle Creek . There was brush and trees at the mouth of Castle Creek and we went on down without observing that creek until we finally reached Nigger Bill Canyon , , 3 or 4 miles above Moab , and became satisfied that we had passed our intended destination . We there tied , up our raft and walked into Moab for the night . Next morning we came back to our raft and continued on up to the mouth of Castle Creek , where we found a 14 or ( 15-foot 15foot ) row boat . We got in the boat , went back to our raft , transferred our cargo from the raft into the boat , and rowed the boat thus loaded the entire distance back up to the mouth of Castle Creek , except at two ( rapid 'rapid rapid ) strethes of water where we towed it . . ( R . . 5192-6 , Vol . 30 . . ) We encountered no ( naviga- naviga ) tion difficulties on our downstream trip with the raft or in our upstream trip with the boat except the work incident to towing the boat at the two places and rowing . . I think our boat drew at least a foot of water and would say that at any point in those rapids the water was at least 2 feet deep . . ( R . . 5198-5200 , Vol . . 30 . ) ( Henri Henry ) / E . Blake testified : In 1909 I went to Green River , Utah , and built a ( 24-foot 24foot ) boat with a ( 6-foot 6foot ) beam , equipped with a ( 14-horsepower 14horsepower ) engine and a submerged propeller . . |
