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Show 161 amount to anything . ( R . 5078-9 , Vol . 29 . ) There were other people besides oil men and geologists who vent down on our boats . We hauled camp outfits and equipment down the river for cattle men who had camps between No . . 1 and No . 2 Wells . We hauled hay and grain or anything they happened to want down to them . On one occasion we hauled 200 fence posts down there . ( R . 5083-4 , Vol . . 29 . ) On the trip that I mentioned with the Chandler boat above Moab , I had no trouble and did not get caught on any sand bars . ( R . 5084 , Vol . 29 . ) Any trouble ive have encountered with sand bars or other conditions at or below our dock at Moab has not been of sufficient gravity to cause us any great expense or to seriously consider moving our dock farther downstream . We ( weren't werent ) bothered much with sand bars ( ex- ex ) cept during July and August and with few exceptions we made our regular trips . ( R . 5085-6 , Vol . 29 . ) 1 have seen the Colorado River frozen over at Moab only once ; that ( vas was ) in the winter of 1924-5 . Every year it is filled with ice cakes which generally come in March and April when the ice along the shore thaws loose and floats down . We have never stayed off the river on account of ice flowing in it . ( R . 5086-7 , Vol . 29 . ) In 1910 two other men and I engaged a power boat belonging to E . T . Wolverton , which had a propeller in a tunnel . In October we went in that boat from ( Wolverton's Wolvertons ) ranch down to the mouth of the Green thence , up the Colorado River to the vicinity of Lockhart , where we hunted deer and then returned in the boat to the place we started from . We went up through the Slide under power and although we hit a sand bar once in a while we had no trouble to speak of . ( R . 5089-90 , Vol . 29 . ) Bessie Walker testified : I am 18 years old . In 1926 I went with seven other people in a small Moab Garage boat from Moab down to the oil wells and back . My sister , who is now 14 , and another girl about my own age , were in the party . On the upstream trip we three girls drove the boat ( four-fifths fourfifths ) of the way and we encountered no trouble in going down or back upstream . ( R . 5092-4 , Vol . 29 . ) Albert Beach testified : I am 40 years old and have lived in Moab for about 25 year . For some years I have been in the employ of Moab Garage Company . When I was a boy at Moab there was an old fellow they called Rocky who trapped on the Colorado River . Hy and Ed Turner also trapped on the Colorado and after their river trips I know |