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Show Record I made trips down to Lockhart with the barge, which is fifty or sixty miles below Moab and made several trips below No. 5274 2 Well. The river water occasioned no trouble to the barge engine. It was equipped with a radiator and we used the river water in our radiator without the necessity of settling it before putting it into the radiator. We also had a tank that was connected with the radiator and the water circulated from the radiator clear back into the tank, thus having more water with which to keep our engine cool, and our cooling system was practical and 5275 effective. Isaac W. Stark testified for defendant on direct examination as follows: I live at Buhl, Idaho, and am 47 years old. I first went 5276 into the Green River country in 1900. In 1905 I assisted Mr. Wolverton in building the Wilmont, when we took off the stern wheel and put on side wheels. I went on that boat with Mr. Wolver-ton to Moab and also went from his ranch to the town of Green River and return. I made lots of short row boat trips up and down the Green River. We did some work on the ranch, but mostly prospected up and down the canyon. I took short trips on the 5277 Cliff Dweller above the Green River bridge. The original name of that boat was Cliff Dweller. The name was changed to City of Moab when it went to Moab under that name; and after it was remodeled they again named it the Cliff Dweller. When a man is in a row boat he is sitting with his back to the current and will sometimes 5278 nose into a sand bar. When riding in the Wilmont I recall only one instance where we struck a sand bar; there was a big eddy on one side of the river, and in trying to avoid that eddy we struck a sand bar and were some minutes pulling off the bar. Neither Mr. Wolverton nor I got out of the boat. Picture No. 1 of Defendant's Exhibit 31 is the Tom Fair ferry boat above the bridge at Green 5279 River, Utah; Picture No. 2 is the same boat; No. 3 was taken on 796 |