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Show 959 but went along the trail on shore with the pack outfit. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q Was this trail along the river edge or on the high land? " A Right along; we were within sight of the boat nearly all the way." R. 2278- 2279. Fort Bottom is a flat, and there is an Aztec fort there and a cliff ruin, a few hundred feet above the river. After leaving Fort Bottom, he came back up the river a short distance with a pack outfit and back overland to the head of Barrier Canyon. " Q What did you do with the boat? " A Left it there." R. 2279. While he was on the river this trip he didn't meet any other people using boats. Torry, Utah, the town from which he started, is about one hundred fifty miles from the Green River. R. 2279. The country through there generally is a canyon country, or is of a canyon formation, and is principally used for a sheep range, " not many people living there." Outside of Hanksville and Greenriver, " we saw a few men who were drilling for oil, some half dozen cattle men, and that is all." R. 2280. Cross Examination. ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2280- 2283) The boats used by him were not flat bottom but lake bottom type and he did not wish to express an opinion as to what the draft was loaded or unloaded. " Q I assume that the dates of your trips through the lower canyon largely depend on the date when the demand comes when the party presents himself or gets in contact with you that wants to take the trip, isn't that true? |
