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Show Lumsden- D 671 BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q You mean in its original construction? A Yes sir. Q You had not reinforced it after you started? A Oh, no; this was put on originally, when we built the boat. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q All right, then where did you go, after you hit into the bank? A We was fortunate enough to get off the boat and tie it up there, and we stayed there -- I am not sure that we stayed all day, but we stayed there quite a while, and tried to figure out some plan whereby we might get up to Moab, but the more I headway trying to get over that slide in the Grand river." It was impossible, so far as we were concerned, with our equipment; we might have had winches put on the banks and snubbed the boat and wound it up this place, but we didn't have those things, and it wasn't what we intended to do, anyhow, that is, I wasn't what we figured on was a practical scheme, at all. So we gave it up, and returned up to the Green river and started back to Greenriver, Utah. Q Now, just tell me about your trip up the Green river. A Well, we had a good deal of trouble getting up the Green river; we had all the swift water to fight; the river was very high at that times; it was probably the first run- off in the spring, and the river very high; we would run up to where there was a sandbar show up in the river, and the channel would be on 2639 |