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Show 813 tackle, lining along the shore. " Q. Did you set the boat up to Greenriver? " A. No, sir. " Q. Whereabouts did you leave it? " A. Wheeler's roach. " Q. On the second trip? " A. On the second trip. " Q. And tied it up at wheeler's ranch? " A. Yes." R. 1923- 1924. In 1890 he was over on the Green River, with a mining company, about seven or eight miles below the bridge on the Green River, and while he was there four fellows brought the boat, " Major Powell", to his camp, and abandoned it. R. 1924. This was at a point fifteen miles above the Wheeler's Ranch. They took the engine and boilers off the boat, and took them to Greenriver. He believes the hulk went down the river. R. 1925. The Rio Grande Western Railroad Company was in a way interested in this boating venture, as it was through the young Mr. Dodge that the trip was under-taken and while they didn't finance the trip, they furnished transportation, and did everything they could to help. On the second trip, Mr. Lute Johnson accompanied the expedition, as he was a newspaper man, and they hoped to have publicity, when they got the boat going. R. 1925. Between the seat Expedition and the first trip of the " Major Powell", He went in on the San Juan River, during the placer wining boom of 1890. He left the railroad Green- |
