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Show Record boats in Greenriver, Utah because we wanted to avoid Cataract 1133 Canyon. Between North wash and Lees Ferry there are a great many riffles. I have been on the Colorado River from Westwater to the mouth of the Green River. We had plenty of difficulties in Westwater Canyon. After we got out of Stillwater Canyon we had gravel bars and sand bars and some rapids down to Moab. In my opinion 1134 you could take a boat up stream from Moab 10 or 15 miles. You would be obliged to tow the boat in places. I did not see any boats above Moab but I saw boats at Moab that were running down the river from there to the oil wells. I have been up the Colorado River from the point where the Green River flows in to Moab 3 or 4 times. In that stretch of the river, some of it you row and some of it you tow your boats. 1135 We encountered sand bars. In March, 1926, I made a trip from the mouth of the Green River to Moab with my brother. We did not have much equipment. By the time we had run from Greenriver to the junction of the Green and the Colorado we were getting low on grub, so we made it from 1136 the junction to Moab about as fast as we could. In places where we could find some sand bar or bank that we could walk along we would tow our boat with a long rope; sometimes we would do that with one man ahold of the end of a 60 foot rope and the other man would take an oar and hold the boat out into the river. From some-where above oil well No. 2 we took the big boat and went to Moab on that. The big boat hit a sand bar in a place or two, but it was always able to back off again, and we made the trip through without hanging up for any great length of time. 1137 I made another trip on that section of the river in 1927. I had a young fellow along with me. We took out boat to the No. 2 well again and loaded it on the big boat and took it to 1138 cab. We had to row and tow our row boat as previously. I would not want to undertake the trip from Moab to - 151- |