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Show 809 year of more, and when he came over to Greenriver, he got a small boat and went down to the Wheeler ranch in February or the first of March. He came part way by water and part way by ice, as the river was till frozen over at that time. R. 1917 The boat that he had was a little skiff, and he dragged it over the ice, until he got down there. Hr examined the " Major Powell" to see what would have to be done with 10, and then he returned to Denver. He hauled the small boat back to Greenriver by wagon. In Denver he got a friend of his an old lake marine engineer secured the necessary material to repair the boat, and he and the marine engineer and one other man returned to Greenriver, repaired the boat, and started down the river. The boat had been tied up on the shore above the water. They put the boat in the river got up stream, and everything was in good shape. They started down the Green River from wheeler's ranch, located about twenty- five miles below the Greenriver railroad bridge. R. 1918. Decides himself, there was H. F. Howard, now dead, and a man named Graham. He doesn't know that became of Graham. The boat had originally been built to burn coal oil; he changed it over to burn wood, and spent a goof many hours of hard work, cutting wood for the boat. They would run as far as they could with a load of wood, then out another load; and do the name thing over and over. R. 1919. On the first trip down, he tried to mark the channel as near as possible, so that when he returned he would have something to work on. He would leave marks on the rock at |
