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Show 6020 465 Seitz - D 4023 any place? When you got through down there at the Green River, then what did you do? A We started back upstream. After reaching the mouth of Indian Creek, we abandoned the river and followed the Indian Creek to the Indian Creek Cattle Company's ranch, which is about 30 miles up the Indian Creek. Q Why did you not go on up in a boat? A Because it was exceedingly slow work. We had to tow the large boat. And also beacause our food supply ran out. By The Special Master: Q Just a minute. I thought you said the large boat sank? A This was another large boat. Q Oh, it was another large boat, what was that? By Mr. Blackmar: Q Let us see about that second boat. Where did you get it, Mr. Seitz? A Immediately after the first boat sank I sent the boatman back to Moab and to Grand Junction to get another boat. He had to walk from our position on the river back to Moab, and from there by stage to Thompson, and then by rail-road to Grand Junction. And he had a boat built at Grand Junction, which was not so large as the first one, five feet beam and about eleven feet long, a flat bottom boat. |