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Show Record Hyrum H. Turner testified on cross examination as follows: 5300 I had experience with canoes in Maine " pretty near as soon as I could paddle. " I have a picture here of a canoe that I used on the Colorado river; it weighs ninety- six pounds, is pointed at 5301 both ends, and I can turn it over my head and carry it. I had used such canoes since boyhood; and, although the canoe of which I show you the picture is the only one I have used on the Colorado, I have used that one a whole lot. People on the Colorado River prefer flat bottom boats to canoes because they haven't had suffi-cient experience to use canoes. A canoe cuts the water sharp; there is no suction behind it. With a square ended boat, when you stop your power, the boat, because of the suction behind, stops. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Mr. Turner testified: I can go up the river as far as Cisco in a canoe like mine 5302 and have gone up from the junction with and didn't have a bit of difficulty in coming up against the current. I poled my canoe the same as I did any other boat, but you must know how to keep your balance. I have not come up in my canoe from the junction right at the highest stage of water but have done so when the water was " way up high". I have been up the Green River twice but not in my canoe. The current going upstream on the Green River may be a little faster than on the Colorado, but there is not much differ-ence. The Green is narrower than the Grand River and you encounter more current, but of course in poling the boat I keep in the eddies all I can. Resuming his cross examination Mr. Turner testified: 5303 The first time I came down the Colorado from the Dolores River I came in a small boat, but the last time I came in my canoe. On my first trip down from the Dolores I trapped mostly on the Colorado River. I would stop and set my traps and then work on down. On the trip when I used my canoe coming down from West water 5304 it was taken up there with a truck. I took it up by truck instead |