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Show 4406 Loper- C 2426 MR. BLACKMAR: You will have an opportunity to meet Mr. Marrs. MR. FARNSWORTH: All right. I will be glad to meet him. Q Now, coming to the occasion when you made a trip with Russell and Monette, had either of those gentlemen ever been on the Colorado river before, so far as you are aware? A In the 1970 trip neither one of them -- well, Mr. Russell might have been on some river; he had never seen a rapid, said he didn't, -- he told me he didn't. And Mr. Monette had never rowed a boat across the river; I took him several trips across the Green River, to get him started out; I thought he had a cool head, and nerve. That was the reason I took him. Q In addition to their lack of previous experience on water in general, neither of them had ever been on any part of the Colorado river prior to 1907, when they went on this trip with you? A To the best of my knowledge that is the case. Q They gave no evidence of any familiarity with the river? A No sir. Q You on that trip separated from them, or they separated from you at North wash, was it? A Stanton's dredge, just above the mouth of Bull Frog. |