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1022 or 72, he indicated to Mr. Trimble at what time he expected to return but did not make arrangements to be brought back up on the motor boat, expecting to go back up the river with his own row boat. R. 2424. He arrived back at camp on the day arranged by him, but the power boat brought him. On this upstream trip he walked part way and in one place the power boat was pushed about thirty or forty feet over a sand bar, until she got water 5 enough to float, and after that up the river sixty- eight miles. R. 2425. He does not know whether Mr. Marrs had ever been up the river before and knew nothing of him before and knows nothing since. R. 2425. Mr. Russell, who took a trip with witness in 1907, might have been on some river before, but he had not seen a rapid, but Mr. Monette had never been on the river in a boat prior to that time, but he took on several trips across the Green River" to get him started out." Neither of them had ever been on the Colorado River prior to 1907 and they evidenced no familiarity with the stream. R. 2426. On the 1907 trip he separated from Russell and Monette at Stanton's Dredge just below the mouth of Bull Frog. R. 2826. He was not familiar with the Colorado River below Stanton's dredge at that time but had had considerable experience in boating before that time, having done a whole lot of boating on the San Juan River in 1894 and 1895. Prior to 1907 he had boated in rapids, " and I boated in still places, and I boated over rocks and I boated over sand." When he reached the Stanton dredge on the 1907 trip, Russell and Monette continued on down the Colorado alone. Later |
