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Show 365 ( Note: Discussion by Counsel. R. 940.) He has lived on the bank of the Green River at Greenriver, Utah, and on the Colorado River at Moab for about five years and has not been able to get a boat back up the Green River as a row boat and he does not think that he could have taken a boat back up the river by poling. He thinks that the only way he could have got a boat back up the river would have been by pulling it by ropes or some other similar means. R. 941- 942. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Don't they ever pole a flat boat up the steam on those rivers? " A. I have never heard of it on the Green, except possibly in some quiet stretch just where a man was out for sport; not for any great distance." R. 943. On the trip from Greenriver down to the confluence of the Green with the Colorado, the water had just receded after a flood. He does not know the amount of water that was in the river. The boat that carried supplies to him and party when a survey of the San Juan River was made carried supplies from Lees Ferry to Aztec Creek and was, according to his memory, twenty- four feet long, - he didn't know the width. There were several men in the boat, including Mr. Loper, who had gone down the river and came back with the boat. He does know that Mr. Wimmer was operating a boat on the river for the purpose of supplying government parties but does not know the type of boat used nor the part of the |