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Show Record of up the river because it required so much longer time and more hard work to go upstream with the canoe and I could go up in a day by truck. I obtained the logs that I rafted down the Colorado River at the bend above Nigger Bill's; they were mostly round logs that were drifting on the river. George H. Chaffin testified for defendant on direct ex-amination as follows: 5305 I am 50 years old and live at Provo, Utah. I first went to the Colorado River about 1895, reaching the river at the mouth 5306 of Hanson Creek. The purpose of that trip was to deliver freight. I went there in March, 1895, and worked on the California Bar for about thirty days. The supplies for my party were taken in boats on the river from the mouth of Hanson Creek to the bar. 5307 I was again on the river in 1896 or 1897. On that occasion I also came to the river at the mouth of Hanson Creek and worked on the Moquie Bar, to which bar we took our supplies by going down the river about half a mile and boating them to the camp about a mile away. During that sojourn in the canyon I made boat trips from Moquie to Tickaboo Bar, rowing, poling and towing upstream, 5308 and also doing some sailing. We put a staff on the end of the boat and used a piece of canvas for a sail. There are rapids at Tickaboo Bar and I have sailed up those rapids, aiding my boat some by my pole; and on occasions I have sailed up those rapids without assisting my boat by poling. My boat loads between Tickaboo and Moquie Bar were about twelve or fifteen hundred pounds. In trans-porting timber we generally used rafts that were ten or twelve feet wide and twenty to twenty- four feet long. 5309 In 1897 and 1898 we were working the Moquie Bar, our supplies reaching the river at the mouth of Hanson Creek. During that perios I did more boating on the river than during the former year. In 1898 I went down the Colorado River from Moquie Bar to 802 |