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Show Record supplies and mining equipment. The other two boats were 16 feet long and about 3 feet wide, flat bottom. The raft we built was about 15 feet wide and 20 feet long. We carried lumber and supplies of that kind on the raft, perhaps 1500 feet of lumber and some grain on top of the lumber. I don't remember whether more than one rode on the raft. 4917 The draft of the Lucy B when loaded was perhaps 16 or 16 inches of water. It was a distance of about 33 miles to the Olympia bar where we took the loads I have spoken of. Olympia bar is about 33 miles below Hite, about a mile or a mile and a half above the 4918 mouth of Smith fork. In taking the raft of lumber and grain, and the Lucy B with its load, and the other two boats down to the Olympia bar no difficulties were encountered. I do not recall that we got hung up at any place. I wouldn't say whether the engine was put on the raft or in one of the boats. At any rate it was taken down there on one of the boats or on the raft. I stayed on the river then pretty closely until about 4919 1904. Up to that time I had been on the river five or six years. During the last visit I have spoken of I made some trips up stream with the Lucy B. It was equipped with a two- cylinder en-gine. It was built, I believe, by a company in Denver for in-stallation in an automobile. It used hot tubes for the ignition system instead of electricity as we have today. I believe it was supposed to develop about six- horsepower, but I don't think it 4920 developed over two or three. At times it would pull pretty good; at other times it would stop if it got a little too warm, and if there was a wind blowing the tubes wouldn't heat and it would stop. It would stop going up or down stream. I made one trip up stream with the Lucy B with Mr. Bennett and Hugh Montgomery to Good Hope and got a load of lumber and supplies and mining equipment and came back. We had no diff- |
