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Show Record of supplies at Halls Crossing and we would go after what they wanted. Sometimes we could go over Bull Frog crossing without helping the boat. It was according to how we hit the current. Most of the time we helped it with the oars. We were never loaded. 4646 very heavy. our boat drew 5 or 6 inches light and 8 or 9 loaded. It took about a foot of water to operate the Evinrude. That is my first experience with a power boat. Mr. Wimmer operated the boat. I was down there as a helper and as boatman I stayed down there in the neighborhood of 45days. When I came out I came out by pack outfit to Greenriver. In 1928 I entered the river at North Wash. Between there and Lee Ferry we did not encounter any rapids that we would 4647 call rapids. I call rapids those places where you white water, rocks and stuff that make the water foam, boil, so you can't tell where the rocks or anything are. There is a riffle at Aztec Creek. We did not touch bottom going across there. I do not remember a place in the river near Lake Canyon Where there is a rock ledge clear across the river. There is some place down there they say there is a rock ledge clear across. I couldn't say whether it is a ledge or not, it is swift water. I do not recall such a ledge at any place on the river. We did not touch bottom there. There is no rapid at Trachyte. There is a 4648 little swell in the river there, nothing you would call a rapid. I did not encounter any sand waves during the time I was on the river. I did say that I took supplies with Mr. Wimmer down to Rock creek. We came back from Rock Creek by boat with that two horse- power motor boat. 4649 I am at present working at the shops of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad at Greenriver. C. L. Christensen, recalled, and testified on cross 675 1796 |
