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Show Record water and never experienced any trouble with the steering oar. I would naturally think that the water was at least two feet deep at any point in those rapids, because, as I recall, the oar stood 5200 at about an angle of forty- five degrees. I think our boat with its load drew at least a foot of water or more. Francis M. Shafer testified on cross examination as follows: 5201 Thompson was our shipping point for Moab freight and with a freight vehicle we figured that the Moab- Thompson trip would re-quire the better part of two days. We didn't take our raft on down to Moab on that trip because, from the description that had been given us by parties when we came into the country, we left sure that we had made a mistake and had passed by Castle Creek, so we ran our raft ashore at Nigger Bill. We didn't take it further down because of the load and because our destination was 5202 the mouth of Castle Creek and it load down to Moab and then back up the river and it was easier walking. We came to Cisco Wash over-land from Grand Junction. My brother and another man were well acquainted with the country and knew that we could get material 5203 at Cisco Wash for building our mine. The population of Moab at that time was not over eight hundred people and its population now is one thousand or eleven hundred. Henry E. Blake testified for defendant on direct examina-tion as follows: 5204 I live at Monticello and am 60 years old. I first went to Green River, Utah, in the spring of 1909, and later lived at Moab. 5205 At present I operate a newspaper at Monticello. The purpose of my first trip to Green River was to launch a boat on the Green River and to investigate the possibilities of freight traffic between there and Moab on the Grand River. In 1909 I built my first boat 780 1901 |