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Show Record on our upstream trip because going down we had found a sand bar there and thought a sand bar would still be there when we returned upstream. Nothing has occurred since that trip to change my impression on that subject. On the occasion when we broke our propeller we consumed possibly half an hour in repairing it. I 2715 pin, but I don't know what caused the trouble. In doing the meandering I spoke of below Moab when we used our sixteen- foot boat, our course would sometimes be in the middle of the stream, sometimes along the shore, and at times we would cross back and 2716 forth, sometimes beaching our boat. We would often beach our boat on the bank and would often hug a bank as closely as we could; and of course in doing that would very frequently touch sand. On the occasion in 1926 concerning which I testified that the big barge of the Moab Garage Company was stuck, I had arranged 2717 to meet Mr. Moore at Mill Creek, having made that appointment the day before. There was no dock at Mill Creek. So far as I know that point was not a usual stopping place for a boat. I requested the man in charge of the boat to go ashore at Mill Creek and to there let me off so I could keep this appointment. They took the boat as far into shore as it could go in order to permit me to keep my appointment. The channel of the river ran up to within a few feet of where I was going to alight to meet Mr. Moore. 2718 The boat got stuck there when they were stopping in order to let me off and probably got stuck there because of their attempt to land me. Charles F. Moore testified for complainant on direct ex-amination as follows: 2723 I am a U. S. surveyor for the General Land Office, with 2724 headquarters in Salt Lake City, having been less engaged since 1917. From December, 1923, until the spring of 1924, I was in 2725 the San Juan country at Oljeto Springs, approximately twelve or thirteen miles southwest from Goodrich. There were thirteen or 358 |