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Show tion gathered upon the first 137 trip was of ( much inuch ) ( assist assist- assist ) ¬ ance to him in operating the boat . . On the second trip , the boat again returned to ( Wheeler's Wheelers Wheeler ) Ranch ( ( E R ) . Vol . 10 , p . 1924 ) and was tied and abandoned ( thejr'e thejre ) . The engines and boilers on the boat ( "were were vere ) taken off and used ( in iii ) connection with a plant at Greenriver , Utah . The hull of the boat was abandoned . ( R . Vol . 10 , p . 1925 . ) The history of this boat is important on the ( ques ques- ques ) ¬ tion of navigation because it was an enterprise ( un- un ) dertaken commercially and undertaken at the ( in- in ) ( stance -stance stance ) of the Rio Grande Western Railroad . ( R . Vol . 10 , p . 1925 . ) It was the first and only attempt to operate commercially upon the Green River , prior to the admission of Utah as a state . The ( ex- ex ) periment resulted in failure and the failure was due principally to those physical characteristics of the river which always ( will wiH ) prevent the successful operation of boats . Placer mining on San Juan River prior to ( 1896 IL896 ) During the gold rush in the San Juan River in 1892 , some of the placer miners used , ( flat-bottomed flatbottomed flat-bottonied flatbottonied ) rowboatsj drawing a few inches of ( water wafer ) . The boats were used principally for crossing and ( re- re ) crossing the rivers . There were a few boats which came downstream from Bluff , Utah , but none ( ever e-ver ever ) went up to Bluff . The trips downstream were ( ac- ac ) complished only by overcoming difficulties with rapids , sand waves , rocks , and bars . At times , |