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Show Record bringing down light stuff, including hay, and received so much per 2444 day for my work. I would say that the Green River between the town of Green River and the mouth of that stream is a little wider 2445 than the Colorado River through Glen Canyon. I won't say that the water in Glen Canyon is deeper than the Green River; if it runs faster it is not deeper. Bert Loper testified on redirect examination as follows: The Stanton dredge was not operated while I was there. 2447 Mr. Seabolt's wife was down on the river during that time and went from Hite to Good Hope in a boat with me. There is a trail from 2448 Good Hope to Hite over which a horse could be ridden, and there is also a horseback trail from Red Canyon to Hite. In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master, Bert Loper testified as follows: Outside of the government trip the longest consecutive dis-tance that I have gone on the San Juan River in a boat was in 2449 August, 1894. I would say that the greatest number of miles that I have traveled along the San Juan in a boat without being in-terrupted at all by getting out of my boat or by portaging or by any other interruption would be five miles, but that is a more guess. William L. Marrs testified for complainant on direct examina-tion as follows: 2450 I teach the subject of electricty in Los Angeles. After finishing high school and agricultural collect, I served my appren- 2451 ticeship in the machinist trade and also in electrical work. My first trip to the Colorado River was in 1921 in the employ of the Edison Company and I made a second trip in 1922. Exhibit 408 is a picture of the boat I operated on the Colorado River. It was twenty- six feet long, five feet wide, a tunnel stern boat, with 2452 propeller wheel in the tunnel. We brought the boat overland to Lee's Ferry and there launched it in the early part of August. On our first trip we started out from Lee's Ferry with a crew of two |