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Show Record meander line. 3391- 3393 The witness is requested to bring into court and have identified the plats of official meander surveys and also the books and any plats on file in connection with unofficial surveys. H. T. Yokey testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3394 I have lived at Elgin, across the river from the town of Green River, since the fall of 1903. There are about a half dozen houses at Elgin. I have built and operated so many boas on the 3395 Green River that I have forgotten how many I have operated. My first experience was in the fall of 1905 with a row boat, when I went down to the Cataracts, about one hundred and twenty- five miles below Green River bridge. This was on a hunting trip in October in a boat fifteen feet long and a three and a half foot beam. With two men and our bedding and provision for thirty days, the boat drew six or seven inches. We rowed and towed the boat back 3396 upstream. When we got tired of rowing we would tow. When we came to the riffles we would have to tow. For two or three years I made these hunting trips every fall. I helped launch the City of Moab, installed the engines in that boat and was its chief engineer. We started down the river in July, having plenty of water, and the boat drawing three feet or more. It had two tunnels twelve feet long and a twenty- eight inch wheel. We went down to the confluence of the Green and Colorado and then up to the Slide, a place where there has been slide that has damned two- thirds of the way across the river channel. The water was at flood stage and 3397 we wouldn't make it up through the Slide. Then we turned around and started back for Green River and left the boat tied up at a point within ten miles of the town of Green River at Halverson's ranch. We only had one hub left on the propeller on the port side and one blade on the storm, so it was time to quit. On our upstream trip we hit a sand bar a few times, but went on over them. We were gone on this trip approximately ten days from the time we |