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Show He has run the ( Marguwita 3farguerita ) ( 1197 119-7 ) every time ( he lie ) has wanted to , unless there ( was -was was ) ice on the river ; he does not believe there was any during that time . ( R . 4743 . ) He believes as a minimum he has made , - fifty round trips from Greenriver to his ranch ( dur- dur ) ing the period from the time he first built the boat to 1915 . He has been around to Moab with the Marguerite , his first trip to Moab being about Thanksgiving day in 1909 . On this occasion he took a party of business men , some ( twenty-five twentyfive ) Salt Lake boosters . He was in the courtroom and heard a witness speak of that trip , a Mr . Howland who was a member of the crew . ( R . 4744 . ) Aside from the hauling he did for the ( govern- govern ) ment in 1914 he recalls three other trips he has ( made made- made ) to the junction , although he might have taken more . He ( doesn't doesnt ) remember the year that he took a . trip with Mr . Richardson but he remembers a trip he took with some engineers in 1915 . ( R . 4744- 4745 . ) Both the Richardson trip and the one with the engineers were for pay . He had a government contract in 1914 to haul freight on the river ( and and- and ) during this time he made about eight or twelve . round trips . ( R . 4746 . ) He can not give ( an all ) approximation of the tonnage . that was hauled , as his son and Mr . Gregory did most of that , and he ( wasn't wasnt ) there when the boats were loaded , and they would say , ( "Well Well ) , we ( prob prob- prob ) ¬ ably had on eight or ten ton . " ( R . ( 4747 47147 ) . ) On the occasions that he saw the boat loaded he would say , ( 33307-31-VOL 3330731VOL ) . 2-30 |