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Show Record located about half a mile north of my place, and which was very rough and rocky, I should think that the channel of the river has changed two hundred yards from its original place. There used to be large rocks in the bottom all the way across and now they are 3260 gone and the riffle is probably two hundred yards below where they used to cross with teams. Just above that place the river changed about a year ago, taking out about four acres of land and the river moved about its width, which was six hundred feet. In 1905 Saleratus Wash, which comes in at about the town of Green River, was probably fifty or sixty feet wide, and now it must be two 3261 hundred yards wide. I don't know of any merchandise ever having been shipped into the town of Green River by the river. Molly Newby testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3263 I have made just one trip down the Green River, which was in the Dispatch, and my recollection of that trip corresponds with that detailed by my husband, William R. Newby. I never saw the Black Eagle or the Wilmont, but I saw one of Mr. Yokey's row 3264 boats. I was at the town of Green River, Utah, about two weeks ago and while I lived in Green River I saw the river quite often every year. I know of boats at Green River now and never knew of merchants or people in Green River getting supplies from the river by boat. Louis M. Chaffin testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3265 I have lived at Green River, Utah, for ten years, and before that lived in Wayne County, Utah. I am 56 years old and have been mining and stock raising, mostly mining, since I reached maturity. I have been on the Colorado River from the mouth of the 3266 Green River down to Lee's Ferry. I first saw the Colorado River in 1888 or 1889, when some California people mined at the Cali-fornia Bar and put in some machinery there. I tock some lumber 447 |