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Show ( river xiver ) . His experience ( 1G4 164 ) ( commenced cornmenced ) in ( 1900 19,00 ) . His largest boat was The ( Marguerite illargiterite ) ( Photo ( Ex- Ex ) ( hibit bibit ) 263 ) , a boat 30 feet long , with an ( 8-foot 8foot ) beam ( Vol . 27 , p . 4735 ) , drawing 2 % feet when loaded . It had a capacity of 3 tons . ( Vol . , 27 , p . 4736 . ) It was originally equipped with a ( gaso- gaso ) line engine and a stern wheel . He made one trip to ( Moab lvloab ) with a party of 25 . ( R . 4744 . ) Wimnier had a Government contract to transport supplies and equipment for a drilling rig which was testing a dam site on the Colorado River ( im- im ) mediately below the mouth of the Green River . All of these supplies ( were -were were ) ( hauled haulecl ) from ( Wimrner's Wimrners ) ranch . By ( haiiling hauling ) these supplies from the ranch the riffles and bad water between his ( ranch Tanch ) and Greenriver , Utah , were avoided . For the ( expe- expe ) rience on the river in connection with this work ( see see- see ) Vol . 11 , pp . 2094 et seq . and Vol . 20 , pp . 3685 et seq . Wimmer had ( considerable cousiderable ) difficulty in and about the operation of these boats . ( Vol . 27 , p . 4814 ; See also Exhibit 631 . ) According to ( Wimmer WiDamer ) , at the present time , there are no boats on the ( Green GTeen ) River and there are no power boats at Greenriver , Utah . ( "Whinner Whinner Wimmex ) has left Greenriver and his boats . were abandoned . ( Vol . 27 , p . 4823 . ) HENRY E . BLAKE Henry E . Blake , now a resident of Monticello , , Utah , came to Greenriver in the spring of 1909 for |