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989 Complainant's Exhibit 404 is identified by him as picture taken at the foot Honaker Trail showing the bend of the river where sand waves pile up so high; " that would have been more than an open boat would have done, to have crossed the river at that place. R. 2346. " Q Are those sand waves you see in that picture? " A Yes sir. There is no rapid or waves there in ordinary water." R. 2346. The picture is taken looking upstream. The waves curl backwards, and the crest of the wave falls upstream. R. 2346. He did some placer mining in Glen Canyon, first entering there in 1907 when he went on a prospecting trip, starting from Greenriver, Utah, September 19th, 1907, and from there he went to Site in Glen Canyon. Besides himself, Charles Russell and Ed Monette were members of the party. The party was equipped with three steel boats made by the Michigan Steel Boat Company. They were launch hulls, sixteen feet long, about eighteen inches deep. forty- eight inch beam, with no motors, although they were made for motors. He and his companions made compartments for the boats and decked them over. They were keel boats. When they left Greenriver the water was quite low because when they started each morning it was a guess to see who would get cut get wet first and sometimes they would all get wet by getting out. R. 2347- 2348. On that trip, immediately below Greenriver, they hit a riffle, " where the iron divides the channel, and I believe we struck the gravel just below the harbor, and then, as I remember, we had no more trouble until we got below the mouth of the San Rafael, when we began to encounter the sand." R. 2348 |
