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Show 408 the river, follow it on down, and you eventually find you haven't the current, at all. Maybe you would get stuck there, and have to row or wade back and pull your boat, in a good many cases, and hunt around to get the main channel." ( R. 1043- 1045) He has never attempted to take a boat up the Colorado River from Moab as far as Westwater Canyon but thinks he could take a boat up the river that far; it would however be necessary to tow the boat in places, requiring more towing than rowing. He has been up the Colorado River between the mouth of the Green River and Moab and has been down the Green River to its mouth. The first trip he made from the mouth of the Green River up to Moab was in February or March of 1925 and was made with the same boat he used in going down from Westwater Canyon to Moab. On this trip a rise in the water of the Colorado made progress difficult and in his recollection it required five days to go from the mouth of the Green to Shafer No. 1 oil well; from where he went to Moab on the Moab Garage big boat. R. 1045- 1049 " Q. Before you get on to the big boat, how did you get that boat up the river to that point? Did you row it all the way? " A. We rowed in places where we could, where there was breaking water against a permanent bank; when we couldn't, we had to tow it; good many cases on a |