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Show Record tion below Cataract Canyon we sometimes had to get out and push a boat off a bar, but that did not occur every day. At times some of the boats got through and some got stuck. We took on no supplies between Green River, Utah, and Lees Ferry and resupplied at Lees Ferry. Between Green River, Utah, and Lees Ferry we saw one other boat tied to the brush somewhere up above Hole- in- the- Rock and met three Indians at about that same place. Constantine Rodin testified on cross examination as follows: 1809 Our big trouble after we left Cataract Canyon and from there to Lees Ferry was to keep warm enough. 1810- 1811 In response to interrogatories by the Special Master the witness testified that the difficulties encountered on his trip were just rapids and sticking on bars; that he does not know what sand waves are. Valentine Woodbury testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1812 I am 45 years old and now manager of a laundry. I spent two years on a United States training ship; two years on merchant ships in sailing, and two years on steam ships, and have also made a boat trip on the Columbia River and a trip down the Missouri River to St. Louis and then up the Mississippi to Grafton. In 1927 I was on the moving picture expedition with Messrs. Clark 1814 and Rodin in the capacity of boatman. We had no keel or detachable board such as was described by the witness Stone. Our boats loaded had a drat of about eight inches, the boat I was riding 1815 having perhaps nine or ten because of its load. We were about eight or nine days going from Green River, Utah, to the mouth of the Green, taking only scenic shots on that river. We stopped at Double Bowknot for a day and painted our boats. There are several sand islands and bars between the town of Green River and the mouth 1816 of the San Rafael. There is one coarse gravel bar just below the railroad bridge at Green River and I think one or two of our boats |
