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Show Record Greenriver with a pair of oars. The hard labor of getting up there is something fierce. I have been from Moan to Greenriver on the road. I 1139 remember seeing one ranch. The country there is badly cut with washes. It does no look like farm land to me. Parley Galloway testified on cross examination as follows: 1140 My brother John is older than I. I was probably 15 years old when I took that trip through Cataract Canyon with my father. Nobody else was with us. I do not remember whether we lined our boat or not. Our destination was Lees Ferry. The purpose of the trip was prospecting and trapping. I did state that I had run the Green River from a point clear up in Wyoming as far as there was boating water down to the 1142 Needles in California. That boating water would extend into Wyoming as far as the mouth of the Fontanelle. I do not know whether a man could run a boat any farther than that, I have not tried. By boating water I meant water in which a boat will run and carry a man and his supplies along. In traveling with a row boat and especially if you are going up stream, it is frequently very much easier to get out and tow the boat going up than to row it in certain stretches. I have always avoided going up stream as much as possible with a row boat because pulling against the current with oars is pretty strenous work and gets tiresome. In coming up from the mouth of the Green River to Moab on the Colorado on our trips we frequently got out, where there was a place to walk, and pull our boat rather than 1144 attempt to row it. When we did row we naturally tried to keep out of the swift current and seek the quiet water, and in coming up in that way we are usually in the shallowest water, and naturally our boat would much more frequently touch ground. By reason of fast that none of the other men on the - 152- 1268 |