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Show Record Robert C. Yundt testified on redirect examination as follows: In 1928 we had a main camp about three or four miles above the Moab bridge on the Colorado River at what is called Goose 2793 Island. I didn't work on the river itself; I had subdivisions north of the river and we worked from there about ten or twelve miles north. We camped on the river but did no work on it at all. I crossed the river in a sixteen- foot row boat at Goose Island, but observed no other boats going upstream from Moab. In 1926 and 1927 I think the greatest distance we would work away 2794 from camp on a given day would be ten miles. In returning to camp I have run across a sand bar several times and at low water it was rather frequent that we hit bars; sometimes we would do so several times. I didn't find that we were able to depend on a 2795 definite location of the channel. I would not say that the channel we used on one trip might not be the channel we would use the next day. When I spoke about pulling over a bar I referred to our use of the small boat when it would ground and the only way we could do was to climb out and pull the boat over the bar and down on the other side. If we could do so we would follow along the same line we had been going, unless the bar was too large; and if the bar was too large, we would have to seek deeper water on one 2796 side or the other, if we could find it. On another occasion later in 1926 I saw the big barge stuck on the sand, when I was on the rim. Except for the one occasion concerning which I have testified when the barge was stuck for eight or nine hours, I can't say that I ever saw any other instance when they took a line ashore because I was never close enough to see how they were getting off 2797 a bar, I can't tell how many times during those years I was close enough to the big barge to be able to tell whether or not it was stuck on a sand bar, but I recall the one instance, which I think was in 1926. I used the outboard motor in our row boat and used it going upstream. |