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Show 184 by team and went to Grand Junction , , Colorado , , the . Temainder staying with the boat . ( R . 671-673 . ) Grand Junction , Colorado , , being on the Grand River , it was first ( thought thmight ) that if the boat were built there it could be shipped down the Grand River to Moab , but after carefully going over the conditions , , seeing the river through Westwater Canyon and other places , it was decided that the risk would be too hazardous and the boat , or hull , , was therefore shipped over the Denver & Rio ( Grande Gralide ) Railroad to Greenriver , Utah . Charles Anderson was pilot on the maiden trip . Before the maiden trip was made a preliminary survey of the Green and Grand rivers between Moab and Greenriver was ( made m6de ) for the purpose of determining the depth of the stream and channels . Captain Charles Anderson , pilot of the boat , ( "was was ) a member of this preliminary survey party . The party boated the rivers in a small ( row- row ) boat and took soundings . This survey was made while the City of Moab was under construction in Grand Junction . The City of Moab ( -xNras xNras ) then taken from ( Green- Green ) ( river -river river ) to Saltair on the Great Salt Lake , where it was used as an excursion boat . ( R . . 674-676 . . ) After he found he had made a mistake trying to ply the Green and the ( G-rand Grand ) River , the conceived |
