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Show Record started until we tied the boat up. We made no side trips, being bound for Moab and were unable to get through the Slide at that flood stage of water, whereas in ordinary low water the Slide did not amount to anything. At high water it takes a good craft to 3398 go up the Slide. We left the boat at Halverson's ranch for about three or four months. The owner having concluded to take off the upper works, removed the tunnels, extended the boat ten feet longer so as to make it a sixty- one foot boat, and then put in the steam power. After these alterations were made the boat was named the Cliff in that boat at which time it was called the City of Moab, it was equipped with two gasoline four- cylinder engines, rated at twenty- five horsepower. After alteration two stern wheel engines rated at twenty- five horsepower each were installed. 3399 Going down the Green River with the Cliff Dweller after these alterations had been made, we had a very good voyage and went on down to Valentine's Bottom, located about one hundred miles below the town of Green River. This trip was made in the latter part of July. Returning back upstream we did better than we did going down with the Cliff Dweller. Once in a while we would run on a 3400 sand bar. We tried to keep away from sand bars. I didn't keep any count of the number of sand bars we hit coming upstream, and 3401 I do not think the man who kept our log kept track of them. We came clear back up to the town of Green River in the Cliff Dweller. The boat was a little long for going over the riffles; the bow would jerk around and the stern come up and left the wheel out of the water; then we would crop back, take a line ashore, and one man would get her off in twenty or thirty feet so we could get in the water and go on. The boat was equipped with a six- spike capstan. On the upstream trip we used the capstan at Fort Bottom, where we ran on to a sand bar without getting off until evening; had to take the anchor out in deep water and take a few turns around the 3402 capstan and pull ourselves off into deep water. At one place going 471 |