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Show 778 which party was to descend the Green River from Greenriver, Utah, to the Colorado, and then down the Colorado as far as possible. He started to visit this party from Hanksville, but could not get to them on account of a washout in the Dirty Devil River below Hanksville. He, therefore, didn't visit the Chenoewith Party after it left Greenriver, Utah. R. 1857. At the time he tried to visit the Chenoewith Party he went from Greenriver to Hanksville in a car, expecting to go on from Hanksville by horseback. He didn't get horses, however, as he met the packer coming back, and he told them that Chenoewith had all ready left the mouth of the Dirty Devil River. Mr. Trimble was in charge of the party that started at Bluff and carried the work down the San Juan River to its mouth, and then down the Colorado River for perhaps twenty miles. He visited Mr. Trimble on the San Juan River opposite the mouth of Copper Canyon. R. 1858. He made this trip by automobile from Greenriver by Moab, Monticello, and on to Bluff; then by wagon and by walking to Goodrich, where he met a boy employed by Mr. Trimble with a pack train, and he went on to the mouth of Copper Canyon by horseback. It took him two days to go from Greenriver to Goodrich, and he spent a day with Mr. Trimble. On this trip the only boat he saw was a small skiff that Mr. Trimble had. R. 1858- 1860. Mr. Trimble was mapping the country, taking the |