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Show Record Moab in that boat if I am not prevented by Mr. Hoover and Mr. McDonald from building the boat. Walter E. Mendenhall testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3452 I live at Lake City, Colorado, and am 70 years old and have been a miner, explorer, newspaper correspondent and editor. Most of my later life has been spent in the neighborhood of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. 3453 A rapid, as I use the word, is more or less dangerous, rough water, filled with large rocks, where the water runs very rapidly. A riffle is of much milder type and is a place where water runs quite rapidly with some riffling over gravel beds. A riffle is often shallow and seldom very deep and the water runs at much less velocity than in a rapid and has a less fall within the same distance. In the summer of 1893 I went by team and wagon from Lake 3454 City on a prospecting trip, first to Bluff and thence down to the mouth of Comb Wash. Alonzo A. Savage accompanied me and we hauled some lumber from Bluff to Comb Wash and made a boat and also a small raft. Savage was an old river man. Our boat was 3455 fourteen or fifteen feet long and there and a half feet wide. When loaded it had a draft of about eight inches. The raft was eight by ten feet and made out of sawed lumber. We did not load anything on to the raft, intending to use it for putting in an elevator or pump on a frame at the edge of the river. We put the boat and raft in the San Juan River at the mouth of Comb Wash or Chinle 3456 Creek, which two points are right close together, and went downstream in the latter part of July or August. I do not remember how many feet of water we had at the mouth of Comb Wash, but the Indians forded there on horseback in going back and forth from their camps to Bluff. I do not think it was necessary for them to swim their horses, but didn't notice particularly. At that time I had not had much experience in boating, except on lakes, but |