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Show Record I reside in Salt Lake city and have resided there since 4681 1899. I am a civil and mining engineer. I am a graduate of Cornell, 1887. In 1908 I made a trip on the Green River from Greenriver 4682 city down to the junction and then to the head of cataract Canyon and then came back up the river. Going down we used a boat about 30 feet long and 5 feet wide in the middle and 21/ 2 feet deep. The engine drove a propeller, the lower part of which, under ordinary conditions, was about a foot and a half below the surface of the water. The boat belonged to Milton Oppenheimer, who lived in Elgin. I employed him to take me down there and back with that boat. There was no one else in the party. I made the trip because I had a tentative dam site below the junction of the Green and the Grand, and I wanted to go down there to make a survey of the dam site, and also to examine the river with regard to its navigability in connection with hauling freight and heavy machinery down to the dam site. A power house was to be 4683 built. We started from Elgin which is just across the river from Greenriver town on the east side of the river. We started out on may 27 and got back on June 26, 1908. Going down the first night we went right down to what we call Tenmile, which is about 42 miles below Elgin. The next night we camped at Barrier Creek. The next night we went clear down as far as we wanted to go and the next morning we reached the 4684 bottom, which was at the head of Cataract Canyon. We stayed down there three or four days and then came back. We were two and a half days reaching a point about 15 miles below Greenriver or Elgin when the engine broke. I do not know what broke about it. We rowed over to shore and I camped there that a stern- wheel boat, which was about 12 or 15 feet wide and 30 or 35 feet long. The stern- wheel was 6 or 7 feet in diameter. It was driven by a steam engine and it drew about a foot and a quarter of water. We tied this boat with the broken motor to the rear end of 681 |