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Show 618 cars, but the gauge man had his canoe out there, and he pulled them all out; no one was drowned." R. 1494. There were no stores or anything of that kind at Lees Ferry. R. 1494. Cross- Examination ( R. Vol. 8, pp. 1495- 1510). In the 1922 trip that he made with Trimble down to Greenriver, Utah, he got through. They had three boats. On the 1921 trip he worked down the Fremont to the Colorado, thence down the Colorado. He did not have a boat on the Fremont. The boats were first used in running the survey at the mouth of North Wash. They were not there when he arrived and they had to wait several days for them, and while so doing worked up North Wash. Ran the line as far as Bull Frog Creek, which is above the mouth of the San Juan. R. 1495- 1496. " Q. How far above the mouth of the San Juan? " A. I don't know that. " MR. HOYT: It is 120.8, about, above Lees Ferry." " North Wash is 167 1/ 2" R. 1496. They used one boat from North Wash to Bull Frog Creek; that was all that was used on that trip. There were six in the party. While on that trip they encountered Cornelius Ekker and his son, and Tom Humphreys at Hite. Mr. Wimmer " was with our party; he was working in from the other and." He was not one of the five referred to. " He wasn't with our party; he was connected with its, but he wasn't with us." There were two others with Mr. Wimmer. He met Mr. Wimmer for the first time at Bull |
