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Show Record River to Townsite Bottom from the town of Green River was only eight hours, and from Townside Bottom to the junction of the rivers consumed about two and a half hours. From the junction up 5211 to Moab required about eight hours running time. On this trip the water was at such a high stage that the stream divided at the Slide and we went up the smaller of the two streams. My next trip was to Townside Bottom in July, where Mr. Anderson then lived with his daughter. We had on board a barrel of gasoline weighing four hundred and fifty pounds and some pro-visions and bedding, and we took a quantity of supplies down for 5212 Mr. Anderson. In September of the same year I took an excursion up from the town of Green River to Moab and return. I recall encountering no trouble on either of the last trips mentioned, that is to say, the trip to Townsite Bottom or the trip to Moab, although I remember that in landing at one place I ran into a slight bar when attempting to reach the shore. Miss Anderson was one of my party on the trip to Townsite Bottom. Mr. Anderson was attempting to establish a small farm there in connection with some oil development that they were trying to promote west of the river. 5213 My September trip to Moab and return was for compensation and I received certain agreed charges for that trip. In August I con-structed another boat, which I called the Utah, the boat I first mentioned being called the Ida B. The normal load the Ida B had a draft of approximately twenty- two inches and the draft of the Utah was eighteen inches. On the return trip from Moab in September we loaded one thousand pounds of peaches on our boat. When peaches 5214 for shipment. However, when these peaches arrived at Green River they were almost perfect. They had ripened a little on the trip but were not overly ripe and were all salable. On the September trip we had a slow time going through the Slide; we had to follow the eddy waters and I ran on to submerged rock and had to thow 782 1903 |