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Show Record through Hanksville. The country between Greenriver and Hanksville 1064 is just a desert country. There are no towns between those two points. I remember only one ranch. 1066 Since I have known the Green River I have never seen any 1067 boats engaged in carrying freight and passengers. My third trip into Glen Canyon was probably along in 1924. We started from Greenriver, Utah, and went down the river by boat. 1068 On my prospecting trips I observed the Colorado River from the lower end of the cataracts to Lees Ferry with reference to sand bars, and I found it about the same as above, except there was more water. I spent possibly four months down there altogether on my 1069 prospecting trips. During that time I did not see any boats engaged in transporting either freight or passengers. I had heard of parties going through. I saw boats tied up, belonging to individ-uals, prospectors, farmers or ranchers. From the mouth of the San Rafael down to Lees Ferry there 1070 are no ranches. There are a few stock in some of those bends. Below the cataracts I did not see any settlers except an old placer miner. I did not see any one at the place they call Hite 1074 John Galloway testified on cross examination as follows: My father's name is Nathaniel Galloway. he used to do a lot of trapping on the San Juan, the Colorado and the Green Rivers. 1075 He went up and down those rivers following his calling. I went with him a time or two. I was living at Vernal, Utah, as a boy and my father then made expeditions clear down the Colorado to the San Juan, and he made expeditions on the Green River from the confluence of the Green River up to Greenriver, Utah. I don't remember of my father ever having a motor boat of any kind. The old trappers seemed to depend on the old style navigation more than anything else, and my father navigated these rivers in the old style way. His boat was a boat he constructed in such a way that he thought was 1079 the best kind of boat to navigate the rivers with. - 145- 1261 |