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Show Record 2394 Tickaboo for gold. I continued working there for them until October, 1915. I ran my light boat between Hite and Good Hope about eighteen miles up and down the river for Seaboldt and Evans in March or April, 1915. This was the same boat I had used on my trip with Seaboldt in 1911. It was about eighteen feet 2395 long, without any motor power. I made those trips back and forth between Good Hope and Hite for Seaboldt and Evans so as to bring freight down to them, including hay and mail. Between 1907 and 1915 the channel of the Colorado River changed at nearly every different stage of Water. I quit this work for Evans and Seaboldt 2396 in May, 1915, then left the river and went to the town of Green River with my team and got some supplies. Later I returned to my ranch and there remained until July or August when I disposed of my ranch to another man and went to Hanksville for the winter. My next experience on the Colorado River was in 1916 with Ellsworth L. Kolb. We put our boats in the river eight or 2397 nine miles above Glenwood Springs and boated down through into Utah, through Westwater Canyon and to the Cisco pump house. In the interest of time and subject to defendant's objection that the testimony is not relevant, defendant admitted that if permitted to testify concerning his experiences on the river between Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and Cisco, Utah, the witness would testify substantially as did Mr. Kolb. 2398 My next experience on the Green River was in 1922 with the Trimble party as head boatman. We started at Green River, Wyoming, and from there to Green River, Utah, had substantially the diffi-culties enumerated by other witnesses who have testified concerning 2399 that journey. I was next on the Colorado River on the first of this month with Colonel Dent and Archie Ryan. I met Mr. Ryan and Colonel Dent at the mouth of North Wash, where I had a boat 2400 ready for the trip. It was a semi- keel boat with a round bottom, square end, sixteen feet long, and equipped with an Evenrude motor. The boat belonged to the U. S. Geological Survey and had been in |