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Show Record John J. Lumsden testified on re- direct examination as 759 follows: I was one of the proprietors of the " City of Moab" which was afterward the " Cliff Dweller". I received a report from Mr. Anderson 760 after his second trip. Our reason for taking the boat off the Green-river and shipping it to Salt Lake City was that we found our first plan of operating between Greenriver and Moab was a total failure, because we saw we could not make any money. We had a proposition from the management of Saltair on Great Salt Lake, and we thought we could make some money by putting the boat on that lake, and we did so. As far as our boat was concerned we reached the conclusion 761 that navigation between Greenriver and Moab was a failure. It was a commercial enterprise and we concluded we could not make any money out of it. John J. Lumsden testified on re- cross examination as follows After I got over to Greenriver I made some investigation relative to probable tonnage. I did not make any investigation as to the probable number of passengers we might get. Couldn't say whether we made an investigation as to the price we might be able to charge per passenger to induce passengers to travel. We did make an investigation as to whether the traffic that we would get would meet 762 our operating expenses and a fair return on our investment. When we received an attractive proposition for using our boat on Great Salt Lake, we decided that that was a more profitable field. Ellsworth L. Kolb testified for complainant on direct 763 examination as follows: I am 53. I have made trips on the Green and Colorado 764 Rivers. My first trip was in 1911. My brother and I started from Greenriver, Wyoming, on September 18, 1911, with two row boats, 16 feet, 4 inches long, Galloway Type, flat bottom, 10 inch rocker, with decks at either end, hatch covering the top, with 2 air chambers in either end under the decks, 4 feet beams, and with open compartment - 113- 1229 |
