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Show Record brother was with me. We got fox, coyote, badger and other furs. We brought the furs back in a boat to Greenriver and shipped them from there. My brother and I made practically the same trip the next year. We left the 22nd of October and came back the first part of 4637 December. We got a supply of furs. We brought them up the Green River to Greenriver in our boat. We had no difficulties whatever on that trip. I have been on the lower Colorado. In 1921 I was down there with Mr. Wimmer. He was supplying the survey outfit from Halls crossing there by boat, hauled supplies in to Halls crossing. I think there were four outfits of surveyors in there at that time. We made several trips up the river from Halls crossing 15 or 20 miles. For a while we went up looking for Chenoewith's outfit and when we located him we took him up supplies from Halls 4638 Crossing. We were using a boat 20 feet long and possibly 5 feet at the top equipped with a two horse- power Evinrude motor. Gen-erally we carried four or five hundred pounds of supplies but at times in going up the river when we were moving camp we would have 1000 or 1500 pounds on the boat. We made trips to Rock Creek, which is below the Escalate. We took supplies from Halls Crossing down there in the 4639 motor boat I have described. Mr. Wimmer was with me in that boat. I was with my father when we went with the Galloways from North wash down to Lees Ferry. With the boats that I have mentioned and the trips that I took in those boats that were not power boats, I did not have any difficulties except with the current coming up stream. It is a little difficult to row against it, not as easy as going down. As far as sand bars and such things are concerned. there is no need of getting stuck on them if you follow the channel. On the lower Colorado with the power boat we had no difficulties whatsoever. Going up stream along Bullfrog rapids, where our stiffest water was, I had to help the motor boat with |