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Show Record to walk the last three or four miles on the last trip. The fact that I walked, I presume it was there that I encountered the diffi-culty on that trip, just three or four miles. Our greatest diffi-culty was in that area. 3669 I made only one other trip. On the other trip I think we pulled in close to Moab. On the first trip, being close to the bridge, I think we stopped at a place where we had our supplies and took them back. During that trip I encountered difficulties on the 3670 river before I stopped to go to Moab. I have no particular places in mind. On that trip I would say that I had my most serious troubles in navigating on the last 10 or 15 miles of the journey up to Moab. I would not say that on both my Moab trips the most difficult stretch of river for navigation was over that portion within 20 miles of Moab. The last trip was taken under different conditions. There had been a flood on the river and the debris in the deeper canyons near the mouth of the river made it harder to navigate. It was necessary, however, to navigate it because we had to get farther up the river. When we got within four or five miles of our destination up the river, we landed the boat and walked the distance. It is certain that the difficulty at the mouth of that river was greater than it was up the river on the second trip be-cause of high water and debris. The place I speak of that was more difficult than on the 20 miles of river next to Moab was a few miles above the confluence 3671 of the Green and the Grand. I do not recall the particular place by name. At that time the water was very high and very rough at that place and it was a hard proposition to navigate. Lester A. Shaw testified on re- direct examination as follows: 3672 Exhibit 477 is a photograph of the equipment at the junction of the rivers as we started out. I see the " Belle of Shannon" and Mr. Anderson's boat, and the paddle wheel which was from the boiler. I mean coming up the river. 521 |
