Show r government BEEN DIEN ON TRIP DOWN COLORADO colonel E J dint of washington D C of the U 8 army ac accompanied com panted by A D ryan of the general land office left saturday on a motor boat trip down the colorado river I 1 being piloted by virgil baldwin and C 8 thomson of the moab garage company the purpose e of their trip it Is understood was to gather facts for or use to in the coming litigation between t the he state and government involving ownership of the beds of the colorado and green rivers it had been the intention of the party to go down the colorado and up the green to the town of green river but on amrital at the junction of the two rivers they found that they could not navi navigate gute upstream on the green ow ing to the many sand bars they came back up the colorado to moab arriving last night |