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Show ( lie he ) would go down just to 1191 see the town . ( R . ( 4719- 47.19- ) 4720 ) ( There Therc ) is some swift water and riffles between Castle Creek and ( Moab Afoab ) and he would get his boat back up the riffle by towing it along the bank with a towline . At the Narrows he would have to tow for about a quarter of a mile , but he could do so without wading the stream . He had some brothers who would go out with him ( on oil ) these trips . ( R . 4720 . ) The shallowest he ever saw the river on the ( Nig- Nig ) ger Bill Riffle would be waist high on a ( six-foot sixfoot ) man . ( R . 4721 . ) ( Cross-examination Crossexamination ) ( Vol . 27 , pp . ( 4721-4732 4721-ri32 4721ri32 ) ) : The lumber that he cut was not all on the public domain . The first season , 1897 and 1898 , ( was -was was ) cut on government land and he believes he ( was -was was ) nineteen years old . In 1902 they cut wood partly on the public domain . ( R . 4721 . ) Between 1903 and 1909 they cut some timber on their own land as they bought some a section of timber from the State of , , Utah just one section and outside of this one ( sec- sec ) , , tion all of the timber cutting was on land that ( be- be ) longed to the United States , that is , during the rafting operations . ( R . 4722 . ) ( Prom From ) 1894 until the fall of 1897 he was ( operat operat- operat ) ing , but ( wasn't wasnt -wasn't wasnt ) close enough to use the river . In 1897 he sold lumber at Paradox Colorado to the , , Cashin Mine . About ( seventy-five seventyfive ) per cent of the lumber went to the Cashin Mine and ( twenty-five twentyfive ) per |