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Show 1083 " I replied-- " MR. FRANDARTH: I don't think that is competent. BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q. Just leave out the conversation. " A. I was first asked to join the party, and I requested instead that I be allowed to become a boatman on the trip going both up and down the river. That arrangement was made. " For that reason I was a boatman on the party that sent up, and Inter on the return trip." R. 2572 Four boats of the skiff type were used:" I don't recall measuring them; we always spoke of them as eighteen-foot boats; I think that is within a few another of their exact dimensions; very broad skiff, square stern; originally very stoutly built, I think with some oak framing. " I remember there was an oak stem or bow, and had been used one or two seasons. They were built and owned by the Southern California Edison Company, borrowed by the survey at this time." R. 2573- 2573 The draft would depend entirely upon the amount of the load. " With the cargo that we carried up -- they were very heavily loaded at all times, both coming up and coming down -- I should say they would have been drawing from six to eight inches. That is a difficult thing to say without actual me measurement." R. 2573 " To aid in the up stream navigation we used three Evinrude out- board motors, one new Elto motor which I had sent direct to me from the factory. That give us one |
