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Show the boats ( get got ) into the water 58 and push off the sand bar , although ( he lie ) did occasionally do so himself . His boat , the ( Marguerite J11arguerite ) was abandoned , and ( Wini- Wini ) mer has left Greenriver . The ( Marguerite 31arguerite ) only drew 2 1 £ feet loaded . He found river navigation ( un- un ) profitable and impractical . ( Abs . R . Vol . 2 , pp . 1196 , 1207 , 1210 ) 1214 ( , ) ) 1222 . ) ( Edwin Ildwin ) . J . Wolverton operated three boats upon the river . ( ( M TH ) . R . 61 , 65 ; Exception ( 15 1.5 ) . ) The stern wheeler Wilmot , after a few trips , was abandoned and allowed to rot . The engine was removed from the , Colorado and the hull was used as a scow . He ( later'1 later1 later' later ) , built the Navajo , which , after a few trips , was ( abtin ab-an aban ) 4i doned . Mr . Wolverton claims to have been able to locate the channel . Nevertheless in a written ( state state- state ) ¬ , ment ( Compl . Exhibit 633 ) he sums up his river ( ex- ex ) periments in these words : ( "The The ) rivers indicated are not navigable on a commercial basis , but under stress of necessity certain stretches may be negotiated with ( light-draft lightdraft ) boats of certain types . " ( Abs . R . Vol . 2 , p . 1373 . ) Henry E . Blake ( M . R . 65 , 66 , 71 ; Exception 16 ) experimented with the river commercially , and owned three different power boats . The Ida B . was wrecked below ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) ranch on the Green ( River River- River ) ; the Utah was abandoned about five miles below Greenriver and allowed to rot ; a third power boat . was abandoned near Moab in 1927 . None of these boats made but a few trips . ( Blake's Blakes ) experiments with the river extended over a period of about twenty years . His operations were confined ( to ta ) |