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Show MW ( w- w ) f 1057 ( the-water thewater ) and push off . The boat they went ( down dowfi ) , the river in , they tore apart and used for lagging and came back in another ( better-built betterbuilt ) boat . . This boat they rowed and towed back up the river . . ( R . 4200 . . ) He obtained the boat lie came back in from a family named Valentine , who lived at ( Valentine's Valentines ) Bottom , , his work being in a prospect probably eight or ten miles above . His work was on the East side , , or ( left- left ) hand side of the river going down . ( R . 4201 . ) He towed the boat in this manner : They used two lines , one line to the bow and one fastened to the boat near the stern of the boat , that is , for turning the boat in and out as you are walking along the shore , to throw the boat out into the current ; usually about a ( fifty- fifty ) foot line on each , bow and stern . ( R . 4201 . ) In September , 1893 , he made another trip down the Green River for the purpose of bringing the Valentine family up to Greenriver , Utah . On this trip he went down the river in a ( flat-bottom flatbottom ) rowboat sixteen ( feet -feet feet ) long and four feet wide that had a draft of from three to four inches . He obtained this boat at Greenriver , Utah , where some trapper had left it . As he recalls , they had pretty good sailing going down that trip , now and then hitting a sand bar , which invariably happens because he ( can't cant ) read the bars all the time on any trip . ( R . 4202 . ) I In going back up the river there were Mr . and Mrs . . Valentine and their ( daughter daugilter ) , Miss Eve Valentine , now Mrs . Ross , and his sister , now Mrs . Howland . . The distance from dreenriver , Utah , to ( Valentine's Valentines ) Bottom is about ninety miles . The water was at the I |
