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Show Record of these washes that come opposite each other; first one will switch over and then the other. And there are some rocks in the riffles you must stay off of. Going up stream I do not hit hard enough to hurt. I can run the Brown riffle going up safer than I can down. I never did have any accident on the Brown riffle, but 4783 it is really what I call a dangerous piece of water. I never had any trouble on it except having power enough to go up stream. I never did fail to go up the Brown riffle in the Marguerite. I never failed to get up any of those riffles with the Marguerite. I have had some engine trouble going down in those years. As I remember now, I had to leave the Marguerite three different times, breaking my engine, power trouble. Through all those years in operating the Marguerite from my ranch down, and up to Moab, and from Moab back, I had no serious trouble at all in any of those trips. When I started to Moab I went to Moab, and I got there when I told then I was coming. I never came back on the Marguerite. My son brought it back and 4784 Mr. Wolverton and Harry Howland brought it back. I was never stuck on sand bars with the Marguerite, only for breaking my engine or my paddle wheel, my power apparatus. I know the place called the Slide on the Colorado River. We got up through there. We had a load of Salt Lake boosters. Mr. Wolverton and I thought best not to tell them when we were coming to the Slide, they might cause us a little trouble. I never had been up there before. So we ran up through the Slide without them ever knowing it. On that portion of the Colorado River below Cataract Canyon and from there on down, about which I have testified, I never had any trouble of any kind or character in navigating that water with my boats. On one occasion, in going down stream with the government party my son and I competed to see who could run the fastest; he was beating me, and I undertook to take a cut- off and I lodged on a sand bar. You might call that trouble, I didn't. That is the nearest to any trouble I know of. |
