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Show 736 cradles and that sort of thing. " BY MR. BLACK MAR: " Q. Was Stanton's dredge in there at that time? " A. Not at the time I was there; that was put in the next year." R. 1771. All of Stanton's supplies were brought in overland. None of them came either up or down the river in boats. The type of boats that Mr. Stanton used were about eighteen or twenty feet long, heavily constructed and propelled by oars. He never tried to take a row boat up stream in the [ Colorado] river. He may have come up stream in an eddy one hundred yards or so, but as far as making any progress up stream he has not done so. The boats that he saw come back up stream empty were towed and rowed. R. 1772- 1773. He next saw the Colorado River in the fall of 1909, when he started with four boats at Green River, Wyoming, and proceeded down the Green and Colorado Rivers to Needles, California. These boats were built especially for that particular trip; were built very light of cork pine, five- eights of an inch thick, sixteen feet four inches long, with a four foot beam, and eighteen inches deep. They were keel boats, and they weighed about two hundred and forty- three pounds empty, and, generally speaking, would draw five or six inches with an ordinary load and the boat's occupant. These boats had an oak keel and very light oak ribs. They were constructed at Detroit, Michigan, and cost about two hundred dollars each. They were shipped in to Green River, Wyoming. R. 1773- 1774. The other members of this expedition |