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Show Record and came down with our boat. We put our out- board motor on the side of our boat at the time we met the larger boat in the Green River and in going up the 927 Colorado both boats used their propellor. We had a canoe along also. The larger boat towed the canoe. The canoe had a few supplies in it. We had frequent encounters with sand bars above the slide, 928 both boats, until just immediately below Moab, I believe the larger boats struck gravel and had to back down and trace a channel of deeper water up the opposite shore. I know Virgil Baldwin, who was in charge of the larger boat. He is known as the pilot of the largest boat now on the river. He directed the course of his own boat up the river. At the instance I have just mentioned, his boat got stuck possibly a half a mile below Moab, at what they call the landing. Henry E. Blake testified on cross examination as follows: The big boat, after getting stick about a half a mile below Moab, drifted down stream and found a channel on the opposite side, and went right on into the dock at Moab, ahead of my boat. 931 We arrived at Moab in the afternoon. That morning we started from number one oil well, which is about 21 miles below Moab. My first 932 experience on the Green River was when I was about 13 years old. 933 I made this first trip on the Green River with my father. I don't remember how long it took us to make the trip from the Town of Green river to Moab. There were several other men along. The boat was 934 24 or 25 feet long with about a 7 foot beam. We then came back from Moab and up the Green River. We made the trip down stream and up stream. We had our beds and such supplies as we needed for our trip. We made the trip in the early fall or late summer. 935 My father had owned and operated two power boats on the river that I know of. My father still owned the old boat when he bought the new boat that we took our 1909 trip in. I do not know - 129- |