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Show 512 limit of practical navigation under the existing condition. " Q. ` Then you can answer my question yes, that you did. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I think he has answered the question. He says yes, only so far as, and so on. I think that question is answered." R. 1275. Mr. Archie D. Ryan and Mr. Bart Loper, who was the boatman for the trip, went with him on his trip down. R. 1275- 1276. The supplies carried with them were expected to last about six days and " I think they would have." They had about twelve gallons of gasoline, weighing about eight pounds per gallon; an out- board motor, total weight fifty pounds; three bed rolls, about one hundred and twenty pounds for the three; rations ten pounds a day, total sixty pounds; kitchen equipment, and so forth, " I think that would weigh one hundred pounds, and we had the three men." R. 1278 The aggregate weight of all three was five hundred pounds. Probably four hundred pounds of impediments. They left North Wash at 1: 30 P. M. on September 1st, 1929. Arrived 4: 35 P. M. at approximately mile 184, camped that night at mile 1481. Traveled about thirteen miles that day, from mile 167 to approximately mile 154, in a little over three hours. In a stretch between those two points " we got off at Red canyon and made a short visit there". He does not know how much of a visit. Red Canyon is at mile 150. |