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Show Record 2388 Betsy Ann. I was employed in helping on the drill at the junction I was on the upstream trip when they brought out the drilling outfit. We took the two barges comprising the catamaran, separated them, put one of them ahead of the Marguerite and the other one ahead of two small sixteen foot motor boats; then we equipped the Betsy Ann with the boiler, paddle wheel, etc., and 2389 brought the three outfits up the river. I rode on the Marguerite. I would say that it took us four days to make the ninety- five miles up to Wimmer's ranch. The Marguerite's load may have been two or four tons. We were on sand bars quite frequently; I remember one time I was on the pilot wheel and I pretty near stood everything on end when I ran on to a sand bar where the channel crossed and made a right angle turn. You never have much trouble in getting off a sand bar in going up the river. The stage of 2390 water was quite low. At Wimmer's ranch the barges were taken off and the Betsy Ann remained there, but the freight on the Marguerite was unloaded and the Marguerite continued on up to the town of Green River with the men. I think there were about eight or ten men on the Marguerite on that trip up to the town of Green River. I remember there was one place below the Auger where we grounded, and it seems to me that it took us a little while to get over the Auger. Our most serious trouble was at a gravel island just below the bridge, which is located right below the town of Green River. There we all got out and helped push over that break where that island is and where the water was shallow. 2391 When going upstream you don't hit a bar so hard and there is nothing to keep pushing your boat on to the bar; the water is coming down against the boat and keeps pushing so that it is easier to get off a bar going upstream than when going downstream. After arriving at the town of Green River I went overland to Hite and thence to my ranch at Red Canyon. I spent the winter at Hanksville. 2393 The next spring, 1915, I went to work for Bert Seaboldt and Mr. Evans who were drilling a gravel bar along Good Hope and |
