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Show 1026 pay by the day and so far as he knows, he is the only one who engaged in the boating business for a day's pay. He knows nothing concerning the coal mines near the river supposedly operated by Chas. H. Spencer. He has never seen the Spencer boat in operation. " I have seen the steam boat tied up; it never left its moorings when I seen it." He saw the bow of the boat sticking out of the sand at Lees Ferry in 1921. " Q You saw it just before and after? " A I seen it before and after." R. 2442. During any period that Mr. Spencer or his company was operating that boat, he was not down on the lower section of the river, and the last time he saw it was before it was sunk, about the 5th of February, 1912. He was not there when it was sunk. The last time he saw the boat it was sunk. R. 2442. He does not know anything about the boat. R. 2443. In March and April, 1915, work was going on on high bars, " That was big gravel bars off to one side of the river, not in the river", and he did not state that work was going on at that time at Tickaboo and good Hope Bars, in the river. Wherever the bars were located he ran his boat on may occasions between Good Hope and Hite, bringing down what he termed light stuff, including hay, and the compensation therefor was so much a day. R. 2443. He thinks that the Green River between Greenriver, Utah, and its confluence with the Colorado is wider than the Colorado River in Glen Canyon. R. 2444. ( Note: Discussion by counsel, R. Vol. 13, pp. 2445.) The Colorado River between the foot of Cataract Canyon and the Utah- Arizona line is not deeper than the Colorado River |