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Show Record The pilot I mentioned, I had never met before that time. He had never been on the river before. 4270 We always try to find the same channel going up that we took going down. Ella Ross testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 4271 I am wife of Joseph A. Ross who has just testified. My first experience on the Green River was a trip in 4272 1892 from Greenriver, Utah, to Valentines Bottom., with two row boats and a scow. The scow was operated with two sweeps, long paddles like oars but much larger. The row boats and the scow 4273 hit sand bars at Saleratus Wash below the Green River bridge and from there on down we ran into sand bars a great many times, I could not say how many. We were 5 or 6 days making the trip. It 4274 was in September, 1892. We remained there one year. While we were at Valentines Bottom we got our supplies from Greenriver. My brother used to come up in a light row boat to Wheeler's ranch and then have the Wheeler boys go to Greenriver and bring the stuff down, or he might send word for them to bring it down and have it ready for him. He made very few trips from the 4275 Wheeler ranch to Greenriver in a boat. After leaving Valentines Bottom we went to Greenriver and I have lived there most of the time since 1893 until 1915. While down there I made a trip from Greenriver town to the mouth of the Green river in 1894 and another trip on the paddy Ross from Wimmer's ranch to Turk's Point, a ways below Valentines Bottom. Those 4276 two trips were made with my husband. I heard my husband's testimony and my recollection of our experiences with sand bars on those trips corresponds substantially with his testimony. Ella Roast estified on cross examination as follows: Relative to those two trips my testimony would probably 4277 be the same as my husbands. I piloted the Paddy Ross some of the |