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Show Record any reason boats could not have radiators on these rivers. 4774 I don't believe I ever ran an Evinrude motor prior to my 1921 trip. In 1923 I went to the Lower Colorado for the California Edison people. I went on the river at Lees Ferry and went to Warm Creek in the Edison Company's boat, which was the same boat that I met that could not get up the river. Some changes had been made in it. I had been consulted by the California Edison people or by their engineer with reference to the type of paddle wheel to 4775 use. The changes made in the boat were the removal of a 40- horse-power Marine engine and the installation of a second hand engine our of a Ford car, and the raising of the wheel from a 4 foot wheel 4776 to an 8 foot wheel. They spaced the paddles a great deal father apart. I saw the boat running on the river at one time. I don't believe I was ever on the boat. 4777 For a period more than ten years have had experience 4778 with paddle wheels on power boats, and I have experimented with different types. If the paddles on a wheel are too close together the water does not get time to run behind the next paddle. For instance, if you only had a four foot wheel and a two- horsepower engine they might work. The engine wouldn't turn the paddle wheels 4779 so fast but what it would get hold of some water. If you had a big engine and turned it like you would a propeller, you wouldn't get hold of much water. Have the other paddle come in and take hold as one leaves the water, and have it heavy enough to hold your engine down, and you can put a forty- horsepower engine in. With a little wheel you don't use the power. I have made a study during my experience on the river of the method of placing the load and the position of load in order to operate with the slightest possible draft. When I was carrying the heavy loads for the government in 1914 down to the 4780 junction of the rivers, we pushed the scow ahead. One idea for do-ing that is to steer it. The other is, your load is on the scow and 699 |
