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Show Record I don't remember what the other one was. On the up- trip there were six men. Coming down we brought 16 men, including the crew, I believe. Before we got to Brought or Aztec Canyon two of our motors had gone bad. We did not have power sufficient to get up the current with the two boats in going past Aztec Canyon. We put the two boats with the bad engines ahead of the other two boats and pushed them. The two engines with the three- horsepower engines were bpushing the other two with their loads. They were loaded with our gasoline for the round trips, our oil and our and our supplies for the one- way trip of 20 days. I would think each boat was loaded 4767 700 pounds. We had difficulty in getting up one place. We did not have power enough. There was plenty of water. My boats I took up just as they were. I made it alright but not without help. These boats were about 16 or 18 feet long, and when two of them were put together that made them over 30 feet long. In the swift water we go so slow that we could not hold them. If we got the least bit sideways in that amount of current it would sweep us down. So I let a man get out and wade and hold the nose of the boat. He guided the boat and I pushed it up. I was in the court room at Los Angeles when Mr. Freeman testified. I heard his testimony and that was about the situation, except he was asked if he could really go up stream better with two boats than he could with one and he replied it made extra power. 4769 I just couldn't appreciate that " power" business. I did not have any more power. I had the same engine all the time after I put his boat behind. As to the engine trouble with the two boats, we had a fellow by the name of Jones, who represented himself as a boatman, but he simply did not know anything about boats or engines. He simply wore his engine out by not taking care of it. Mr. Freeman wore his engine out too. I did not have any trouble with my engine on account of 697 |
