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Show 718 The trip from Greenriver, Utah, to Lees Ferry, Arizona, took twenty or twenty- one. He has had quite a lot of experience in handling row boats, and in his estimation, he couldn't have taken the boat he operated back up stream from Lee's Ferry alone. It " probably would have been a possible thing to do with a men that had plenty of assistance and equipment to do it with". He would say it would have taken of backing men to have taken her back as far as the Cataracts, and going up through the Cataracts, the boat would have to be portaged around every rapid. R. 1720. The taking of moving pictures delayed the expedition quite a bit. If it hadn't been for this they could have come through in less time. R. 1720- 21. He has gone up the Colorado River above Lees Ferry in a boat at least five or six times; the first time in July, 1926, he went upstream in a motor boat about twenty- six feet long and about a five foot beam, drawing about eighteen inches of water, the motive power on this boat one being a Ford motor taken out of an automobile and belonging to him. R. 1721. He made this trip just to see if he could go up there and carried supplies that would weigh in the neighborhood two hundred-fifty pounds. He was accompanied by bob Marshall, carried food, a camp outfit and extra gas, and went upstream in the neighbor-hood of forty or fifty miles up past the Utah, Line. R. 1723. From his experience with the gauge readings at Lees Ferry, he would estimate the flow of water in the Colorado River at the time he made trip, of being in the neighborhood of |