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Show Record The shallowest I ever saw the water at any of the shallowest fords, the water came up to about the point of the shoulders or the belly of the cattle. We picked our ford for doing the cross-ing. Even at the very lowest water we always selected the shallow places. 5128 Otto Empey testified on re- cross examination as follows: The boys would skate at Moab on the ponds and on the river. Right up and down the river there. At that time it was not wide and shallow in that section. The channel is deep pretty well all the year across there. While I was there there was not skating every year. Some years it would go probably two or three years and wouldn't have any skating and no snow. When there was skating there it usual-ly came in December or latter part of November. Otto Empey testified for defendant on re- direct examination as follows: Some winters the river would be frozen clear across. I 5130 have seen it frozen clear across five or six times, and on those occasions it would last for about a month. Charles A. Gibbons testified for defendant on direct ex- 5130 amination as follows: Greenriver is my permanent residence. At present I am living at Hanksville. I am in the sheep business. I first went on the Colorado River in the eighties. I don't remember exactly what year. I entered the river at Dandy Crossing, mouth of trachyte canyon. We went there on account of the gold excitement. We did not go on the river at all that trip, just on the banks of the river. We reached the river overland by pack out-fit. We stayed around Dandy Crossing two or three days. We had no equipment for saving flour gold. On that trip I saw Cass Hite. There were other men there, with Cass, five or six. Those men while I was there were building rafts to load a boiler that was going 5134 down the river to Tickaboo. I did not see them loading the machin-ery. It was already loaded in the river when I got there. The raft |