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Show Record of the river used was from the mouth of Castle Creek to the ferry 4711 boat at Moab. Our first season was 1897- 1898. We next operated our saw mills and used the Colorado River in conveying lumber to Moab in 1902 and continued each year until 1909. Our operations in 1897 and 1898 were on Castle Creek. 4712 Our later operations were at Fisher Point on the Lasal Mountains. Fisher Point was 22 miles from the river and we hauled the lumber from there to the river by teams. It was 16 miles from our mill on Castle Creek to the mouth of Castle Creek and that lumber was hauled overland from the millsite to the mouth of Castle Creek. After we reached the mouth of Castle Creek we farted the lumber in 4713 the river. Our rafts were about 16 feet wide by 64 feet long and consisted of ten to fifteen thousand feet of lumber to the raft. The number of such rafts taken by me or my father from the mouth of Castle Creek to Moab each year was around ten, sometimes more, 4714 and sometimes less. I rode some of those rafts myself. Ordinarily there would be two men to a raft. Sometimes we would take two rafts down together and we would handle them by putting two men in front and one on the back end. An such shipments there were around 26,000 feet of lumber. We rafted the lumber I have mentioned during each and every month from June to December of each year. All of 4715 the lumber that we delivered to Moab was not rafted down. Sometimes we took a load down the bank, and sometimes over Wilson Mess to Moab, and bring back supplies. Sometimes we did not take any lumber down. Sometimes when we had a small bill for order for lumber and we did not have enough to run a raft, we would take a load down to Moab by wagon to fill that small bill. A very small portion of 4716 the lumber was taken down to Moab other than by rafting. Rafting was the cheaper and easier method of transporting that lumber from our mills to Moab, because two men could run 10,000 feet of lumber in one to two days in a raft, where it would take about 6 or 7 four- horse teams and 6 or 7 men to transport the same amount overland. 687 |