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Show Record 10 miles above that. The man that was with me was Lee Valentine. 4202 I was again on the river in September, 1893. The purpose of that trip was to bring the Valentine family to Greenriver. I went down the river in a rather large row boat, 16 feet long, 4 feet wide, 3 or 4 inches draft. I had pretty good sailing going down on that trip. Now and then I hit a bar. You can't read the 4203 bars all the time on any trip. There were four besides myself on the trip coming up. It is probably 90 miles from Valentine's Bottom to Greenriver. At that time the water was what we would 4204 call the low stage. We were about 7 days going to Winmer's ranch. We did not go to Greenriver because we were loaded too heavy to go up over the swift water in the gravel rapids. We got to Wimmer's ranch by rowing with two sets of oars at times and towing with ropes. From Winmer's ranch the party proceeded to Greenriver by wagon and I rowed and towed the boat up to Greenriver. The Valentines had been living at Valentine's Bottom for about a year, from September one year to September the next. they got their supplies from Greenriver. Their son would come out with a boat and take supplies in to them by boat. He would come to 4205 Greenriver, Utah, from Valentine's Bottom and back in a boat. In November 1893, I took Mr. Bullock, owner of that prospect, from Greenriver down to the prospect and back in a boat about the same as the others. On that trip between Greenriver and the 4206 mouth of the San Rafael we possibly stuck a time or two but nothing serious. From the mouth of the San Rafael down we had about the same trouble with sand bars. The trip back to Greenriver was quite a hard one. We had to buck the mush ice that was on the river. 4207 Since 1905 I have made other hunting trips on the Green River in row boats and had the same experiences as I have mentioned on the previous trips. 4208 In 1901 I made a trip from Greenriver to the hand of Cataract Canyon with a surveying party who intended to build a sanitarium at the Cataract Bottoms. We had an ordinary row boat |