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Show Record 3241 During one period that I was there on the river, I think it was in 1898 or the spring of 1899, I would say that there was in the neighborhood of seventy- five or one hundred men working along the river in that section. Most of them lived in tents and most of them were working for the Stanton Company, which brought in supplies only for its own outfit. Since 1898 there were for a long time twelve men, who get their mail at our post office and most everyone on the river got their mail at the post office. Some of them lived in little houses, dugouts, and some of them lived in tents. We made one house out of willows and plaster. William R. Newby testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I live at Green River, Utah, and am a farmer. I was 3243 roustabout on the Cliff Dweller, and in August, 1907, that boat left the town of Green River. It was also known as the City of Moab, but I wasn't on the boat when it bore that name. The Cliff Dweller left the town of Green River about ten o'clock A. M., I think. The river was falling, but it was at a fair stage of water. We made good progress until we hit something. I don't just remember when that was; there were too many hits there to tell just where the 3244 first one occurred. It was above the mouth of the San Rafael when we first hit something, and after that we went along fine until we hit something else, and that generally tells the story of the of the trip down as far as the mouth of the San Rafael. On that trip we went down one hundred and five miles from the town of Green river to Valentine Bottom. We found a better channel in Stillwater Canyon than any other place. On the trip we had difficulty with sand bars. Charlie Anderson was pilot and H. T. Yokey 3245 was engineer. Bergstrom was fireman. When we got stuck so hard we thought we couldn't work our way off, we took a line ashore, made it fast to something, and would wind the boat off with the capstan, which we carried with us. I started to make soundings 443 |