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Show Record 16 feet long and 3 1/ 2 feet wide. The water was very low. It was in July. I had practically the same kind of experience going down and coming back up as I have detailed on the other trips. 4210 I was engineer on the Undine on its first trip on the river. It had a regular stern- wheel engine, coal burning. We 4211 started down the river with the Undine in August, 1901. We had a crew of 7 or 8 on the Undine, might have been more. About half way between Greenriver and the mouth of the San Rafael we struck a rock in the river and broke a hole in the bottom of the boat. We had to beach the boat and repair it. The draft of the boat was 12 or 14 inches loaded. After we patched the boat we started down again. We had the usual luck of hitting sand bars all the way down. We 4213 got off the sand bars by using lines that we called snatch blocks. I do not recall how many days it took us to go from Greenriver to the mouth of the Green River. Sometimes we were tied up several hours on a bar. Other days we would make good headway, cover quite a distance. Stillwater Canyon and Labryinth Canyon is practically the same kind of river all the way through. We had frequent ground- 4214 ings in both canyons. I believe the engine was 22 horse- power. From Greenriver, Utah, our destination was the head of Cataract Canyon. Frank Summerall of Denver intended to establish a sana-tarium there. Going down the current did not bother us except on sand bars. We took soundings where the water looked very shallow. We camped at the head of the cataracts for several 4216 days, and then came back up the Colorado to Moab. On the trip up to Moab we encountered a few sans bars. We would strike them on the lower side so it didn't give us much trouble. 4218 I recall the boat named " City of Moab". Between the time the Undine went down the river and the coming of the City of Moab, I made some short trips on the Green River. I was one of the pilots on the City of Moab on its first trip down the river, from the Town of Greenriver to the junction and up the Colorado about three miles. We had a very hard trip with the City of Moab because |