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Show 409 a boat wouldn't tow up it; it would drag on the bottom, and we would have to wade out maybe fifty or sixty feet in order to get enough line out to give the boat the current so it would go on up with a tow line." R. 1049. Witness does not recollect a place on the Colorado River known as the slide but remembers a place about two miles above the junction where there were a good many rocks lying on the bank and in the river, making a narrow current. He did not have much difficulty rowing the boat up through, except possibly a little trouble in passing around some of the rocks. By the Special Master: " Q. Rowed around it? " A. Yes; I remember that. " There was one place, however, as I remember, I don't know which one of as it was, threw the tow line over a ledge to the other party where we couldn't pull around by oars; then took an oar and give the boat a shove out to the fellow above the ledge, heave on it, and pull it above the rock. " We have had some experiences of that kind in there, too." R. 1050 By Mr. Blackmar: " Q. What per cent of the distance, would you say, between the mouth of Green River and Shafer No. 1 did you tow the boat? R. 1050 |