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607 When they encountered sand waves, and couldn't miss them, " we would try to turn the boat parallel to the waves, and ride it through that way, " float down sideways. If you hit the sand waves head on with an open boat " you would probably lose everything you had." R. 1473. " With a decked- over boat we generally" hit a water wave head on; " with an open boat we tried to get around what we could; if we couldn't, we hit them head on -- or backed into them, rather." R. 1473. The difference in effect on a boat between a sand wave and a water wave, in its operation, " a regular water wave will break upstream; they are sharp; a sand wave will keep rolling." R. 1473. By prearranged plan, a wagon and four- horse team met them at Bull Frog Creek to take them out. From there they " went out to where the truck was stored. and from there went up to Salina, Utah." The truck was stored at a ranch up in there, in the neighborhood of forty miles from the Colorado River. " I know we all had blisters when we got there." R. 1474. After they got to Salina, Utah, the truck broke down and " we took the train out to Thistle Junction, from there went down to Greenriver, Utah, on the train." R. 1474 They didn't carry the survey line down the Green River. " We had no work to do there." R. 1474 After they reached the Green River " we loaded up the boats; we had a small Evinrude which we put on one boat; we started down the river. R1474 " She boat with the |
