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Show Record a few months. Later I had a 25 or 30 acre fruit farm North of the Town of Greenriver about a half mile from the river. I traveled to and from the farm by wagon road. I did not use the river. In 1914 I was employed by the United States Government as a boatman for the Reclamation Service. Previous to that I had had experience in canoes and row boats and I had also operated 3653 power boats. I was on a salary and I also furnished boats. I furnished a motor boat about 14 or 16 feet long. It was named " Belle of Shannon". It drew 6 or 8 inches empty. It had a two cylinder simple marine engine in it. 3654 I launched the boat at Greenriver, and went down from there to Wimmer's ranch where the freight and equipment had been loaded on the larger barge, and left with the party from there. Between Greenriver and Wimmer's ranch I encountered difficulty because I was alone and knew nothing of the river and had no experience there. Frequently I would get into a wrong channel of the river and would have to get out and push. I remember occasionally going over a harder substance, which might have been a boulder or a rock riff. When I arrived at Wimmer's ranch I found that the equipment had been freighted there and loaded on a barge which was being 3655 made ready to go on down the river. There was one other small motor boat there. Mr. Wimmer was in charge of the other boat. At Wimmer's ranch one or two of the party with their personal equipment was loaded into my boat and they went from there to the junction of the Green and the Grand. On that trip down there we had experience with sand bars continually. I learned that the sediment in the river caused the formation and dissolving of sand bars very quickly, and the necessity to find the right channel was made easier by the fact that the other party was ahead of me most of the time and picked out the channel. Regardless of that I would get stuck with my boat, and I think on occasions I got out and helped with the larger boat which got stuck occasionally. I remember |