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Show Record down, called Hell's Hole, we stuck at about two o'clock in the afternoon. We there threw the anchor overboard and next morning the boat was floating free. That was at a point thirty or forty miles below the Denver and Rio Grande bridge and about fifteen miles below the San Rafael. We used a common old fluke anchor weighing one hundred and fifty pounds. When the boat was known as the City of Moab it did not carry a capstan. When operating 3403 the City of Moab we only ran lines to shore on one occasion, which was on the down trip at a point two miles above Horseshoe Canyon. We carried no freight on these trips, but the owner of the boat had two guests. Our trouble at the Slide on the City of Moab trip was because of the flood stage of water. At low water and at minimum stage of water it was no trouble to go through the Slide, but at high stage I don't think a craft can go through there. Fort Bottom was figured to be about eighty miles below the town of Green River and Wimmer's ranch is twenty- five miles below 3404 Green River. A place called Brigham's Aleck is where we got stuck on the bar and got off with the capstan and anchor. On the upstream trip we stopped at Wimmer's ranch, which used to be Wolverton's camp, and raised our engines because the paddle struck a little below the bottom of the boat and we wanted to raise them so they would be in the clear. I think it took us two days to raise the engines. 3405 The owner, Mr. Lunsden, sold a half interest in the Cliff Dweller to Mr. Seigmueller and they saved the boat in two and shipped it overland to Salt Lake where it was used as an excursion boat. It only made the one long trip on the Green River. We made two little side excursions. Exhibit 473, identified by the witness as long, was offered in evidence, whereupon the witness was examined concerning the log by counsel for defendant and testified as follow: We had typewriter on the boat and the typewriting on Exhibit 473 must have been done in Cincinnati. I didn't know anything |