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Show Record the stern- wheel boat and went right up to Greenriver. We left that 4685 point at nine o'clock and reached Greenriver at two o'clock in the afternoon. We did not get on any sand bars going down. I don't remember any trouble of any kind. We sailed right along. There was a channel that the main stream of the river followed, and of course the river is very crooked, consequently the channel would have to cross from one side of the river to the other. If you followed that channel there was no trouble in getting good deep all the way down. If you did not follow that channel, and used poor judgment. it was easy to get into shallow water. What I say there 4686 has reference to the river below the mouth of the San Rafael. We did not encounter any difficulties on the up- journey for the same reasons I have just given. Our trip was not delayed from any con-dition which we found on the river either from sand bars or rapid water. I made the same trip before the one above mentioned, but simply went down and back, without spending much time in making an investigation. I made the first trip in the same gasoline driven power boat. I think it took us what we called two days and a half. We would stop every night and camp on the shore and just as long as convenient. On the return journey it took about three days, barring delay from the breaking of the engine on the second trip. On the trip where the engine did not break, I do not remember any trouble at all, except the one I spoke of in crossing the river; sometimes where the channel crossed you had to watch to keep in the deep channel. I think I made the first trip in July, 1907, but I am not absolutely sure. Guy Sterling testified on cross examination as follows: The stage of water was probably in little higher when I went down in 1908. I would not say approximately the same. I would say it was undoubtedly higher in the first part of May than it would be in the middle of July of any year. It would purely and simply a 682 |