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Show 552 on the east; there are several roads that start out at Moab towards the southeast, and branches turn off coming down on the divides between streams, so they come within fifteen miles of the Colorado river, but none go to the river." R. 1348. He has been on the Green and Colorado Rivers in a boat but never on the San Juan River in a boat, although he has been along the entire course of the river except the lower three or four miles. He has traveled in a boat that section of the Colorado River from Moab to the head of Cataract Can-yon. " I have been in a boat from that point up the Green river to what I shall tern mile post 54, and have been along the banks from mile post 34 to the town of Greenriver, itself. " Parts of this same course I have been over se-veral times." R. 1348. He has been on the Colorado River five times be-low Moab in a boat. R. 1348. He used one boat twice, the second boat once and the Moab garage boat on two occasions. R. 1349. The first trip he made in September, 1921, in a row boat and he went down as far as mile post 40, a distance of twenty- five miles from the town of Moab. He had no motor but a pole and oars. After he got to the point he abandoned the boat tied it to a tree and walked back to Moab. R. 1349. |