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Show Record Bottom. We were two days going to Wheeler's ranch. We took two milk cows on the boat. We had to unload them because we could not get across the bar near the railway bridge at Greenriver, and we drove them to Wheeler's ranch. We loaded them again, and just below Wheeler's ranch stuck again and took the cows off and they were driven 20 or 30 miles down the river, where we camped and loaded the cattle and they went on down to their location. The progress of the trip was uneventful, except for the lodging occasionally on bars. We would get off the boat and pry it off the bar and go on. I 3590 think we were nearly a week going down. I came back on horseback. I have made other shorter trips on the Green River. Below the mouth of Price River and I should judge down 25 or 30 miles below Wheeler's ranch. I had a flat bottom small row boat. I would encounter sand bars nearly always in this row boat. I do not recall seeing any boats on the Green River except 3591 at Wheeler's ranch and a couple at Greenriver station. They were row boats, except at Greenriver they had a cable ferry that they operated at certain stages of the river, that is, when the river was deep enough to go across and not too high to be dangerous. At low water it was principally a ford on horseback. Homer J. Hite testified on re- cross examination as follows: I think it is about 75 miles from Cisco to Moab by the river. There is no wagon road. It was about seven miles below Cisco that I swam over to the boat. I swam over to get the boat to take my pardner over in. He could not swim across the river. That was a real, nice little stretch in there of deep water. I could not give you the number of 3593 second feet. It was narrow and sluggish and deep. There was no ford at that place. This was a row boat and had evidently been used for that purpose. It was a place that was used for going from one side of the river to the other. The deep water there about as 3594 wide as this room, I would think 20 feet. The stream was not broken into channels. I waded out only a short distance before coming to 507 |
