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Show Record river, and it is now covered with mud and sunk in the sand on the west side of the bridge. I have knowledge of Mr. Wolverton's 3341 taking supplies by boat down the river to his ranch. Aside from that I have no knowledge of merchants or other residents of Green River getting supplies by boat. I once worked for the Monumental Oil Company, which was drilling a well about four miles south and west of the swinging bridge at Mexican Hat at a point about four or five miles from the San Juan River. Our supplies and equipment were brought in overland from the north side of the river and our rig was gotten across the river by teams. Maud Kendrick testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3343 I am the wife of Levi Kendrick and have lived at Green River, Utah, since 1905. I once forded the Green River at what was known as the old Trap Ford, located about two miles north of 3344 the Green River bridge; that was in the summer of 1910 and I crossed on horseback. I remember the boat Dispatch which broke loose from its moorings and was sunk at the railroad bridge. I also saw the Marguerite in the sand, but don't know where it is now. I have been on the Cliff Dweller but only to a point a mile and a half below the Green River bridge. We started on a pleasure trip and came 3345 back and moored boat. I once went with Mr. Wolverton and his daughter on a boat trip from his ranch down to Three Forks Canyon; two days later we came back up the river as far as Little Valley, 3346 at which point he pulled his boat in to the bank. This was at a place known as Halverson's ranch. The boat we came up in was a motor boat, but on the trip from the Wolverton ranch down we went 3347 in a row boat. Little Valley, where we left the boat, is six or seven miles below the town of Green River, Wolverton's ranch being something like twenty miles below the town. I don't know what became of that boat of Mr. Wolverton's. |