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Show or more , and when he came 567 over to Greenriver , , he got a small boat and went down to the Wheeler 41 ranch in February or the first of March . . He came part way by water and part way by ice , as the river was still frozen over at that time . ( R . 1917 . ) The boat that ( he lie ) had was a little ( skiff sldff ) , and he dragged it over the ice until ( he be ) got down there . . He examined the Major ( Poioell Pwve7l ) to see what would have to be done with it , and then he returned to Denver . He hauled the small boat back to ( Green- Green ) river by wagon . In Denver he got a friend of his , . an old lake ( marine marhie ) engineer , secured the necessary material to repair the boat , and he and the marine engineer and one other man returned to ( Green- Green ) river , repaired the boat , and started down the river The boat had been tied up on the shore above the water . They put the boat in the river , got up stream , and everything was in good shape . They started down the Green River from Wheelers ranch , located about ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles below the Greenriver railroad bridge . ( R . 1918 . ) Besides himself there were H . F . Howard , now dead , and a man named Graham . He ( doesn't doesnt ) know what became of Graham . The boat had originally been built to burn coal oil ; he changed it over to burn wood , and spent a good many hours of hard work ( cutting -cutting cutting ) wood for the boat . They would run as far as they could with a load of wood and then cut another load , ( and find ) do the same thing over and over . ( R . 1919 . ) |