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Show Record a distance of thirty or forty feet over sand bars and pushed it over two rapids for a distance of about fifty feet each. I do not know whether Mr. Marrs had ever been up the river before the occasion when he took me up. 2426 When I took the 1907 trip with Messrs. Russell and Monette, Russell might have been on some river but said he had never before seen a rapid, and Monette had never rowed a boat across the river and I took him several trips across the Green River to get him started out. Neither of these men had ever been on any part of the Colorado River prior to 1907 so far as I know and gave no 2427 evidence of familiarity with the river. I was not familiar with the river below Stanton dredge at that time but " I had done a 2428 whole lot of boating on the San Juan in 1894 and 1895". In 1894 and 1895 I did a good deal of boating up and down the San Juan River, in rapids, in still places, over rocks, and I boated over sand. When we reached the dredge in the Colorado, Monette and Russell continued on down the river alone. Later I followed them 2429 to Lee's Ferry and then came from there back up Hite. I had bedding, a few clothes, and some food supplies with me, but the boat was not very well loaded and I ran out of grub before I reached there. When Monette and Russell left the Stanton dredge to go on to Lee's Ferry, I took my boat up to Hite, a distance of 2430 forty miles, rowing it a little bit of the time. The miners I saw opposite the old Stanton dredge as I came up the river from Lee's Ferry had a row boat with which I saw them cross the river. After I established my ranch at Red Canyon I occasionally took my boat up to Hite for supplies, making that trip probably three or 2431 four times a year. I made several trips down as far as Smith's Fork and several down to Olympia Bar; also a trip or two down to the California Bar, taking my boat up and down the river on those trips. As a matter of fact I have gone up the river with my boat very near as many miles as I have gone down it. I rowed my boat upstream ten per cent of the time and towed it ninety per cent. |