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Show Record river. We figured on irrigating by pump. They are situated so river water could be gotten on them. I couldn't tell you the size of the Wolverotn boat 4884 that took us down and back. It was called the Wilmont, I think. Side- wheel boat. On that trip with Mr. Wolverton there were six in the party. The Wolverton trip was taken either in 1905 or 1906, September. I took a trip down the river in October, 1914. The purpose of that trip was taking moving pictures of the cataracts. There were three of us. A man by the name of Charles Russell was at the head of it. We had a row boat made of sheet steel, designed to run the cataracts. We went through Cataracts canyon and stopped at Hite. We run all of the rapids but one. We portaged that because Russell had turned over in the boat and lost the oars. I don't know which one it was. We found the oars drifting in an eddy pool. The boat had water tight compartments. We had life preservers and we wore them, but not before reaching the cataracts. We left the river at Hite. 4887 On my trips on the Green River in the row boats we always had plenty of water. There are sand bars you can run on if you aren't careful, but if you follow the channel there was plenty of water to run a well loaded row boat. My boat loaded I think would draw 8 or 10 inches of water. Coming up we would take ad-vantage of all of the dead water we could, either rowing or towing. Sometimes we would run up on a sand bar, push off and have plenty of water. In coming up stream we would endeavor to take advantage of the eddies and keep out of the deep water, out of the current. The situation with respect to difficulties or obstructions to our boat travel on the Colorado River from the head of the cataracts to Moab was about the same. I know a place called the 4888 Slide. We had to tow up through there. There were narrows there, swift water coming through there. On the motor boat trip that I took with the Wolvertons, we did not have any difficulties. We did not get hung up on sand |