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Show Record to me. Sometimes the big floods that come down the side canyons will carry in sediment that will possibly push the river towards the opposite band for a short period of time, but they will always leave a channel. From my experience there would always be a channel to go up or down the river. Sometimes the deposits of sand and silt that come down the side canyons in floods will extend out from the mouths of the side canyons for a ways for a few days, but the natural flow of the river is so much larger than any of those side floods that come in that it carries it on. I have not experienced any 4943 difficulties in navigation because of the conditions thus created. I was on the river during the summer months. The year I watched the dredge I was there from spring to fall. There were 4944 years when I stayed through the summer months. From the time I went to work for Bennett for the Moquie Mining Company up until after I watched the dredge, I was there during all the time continuously, except being out for a few days, a week or two, making a trip to Loa and back. That was about two and a half years. I went in the spring and left in the fall. Besides the experiences that I have detailed here with power boats I have had experience with power boats in the State of 4948 Utah, State of Oregon and State of California. I have had personal power motor boats and one and a half horsepower motor boats and this motor that was in the Lucy B. The boats that I have used with the four- horsepower, motor were about 28 feet long; that was on the scow, which was about 14 feet wide, and was the scow I used there at the 4949 dredge on the Colorado. The boats that I have used in other places have been of less horsepower, except one launch which was perhaps 26 feet long and maybe 7 or 8 feet wide, with and engine I should judge of 30 or 40 horsepower. I operated that at Arrowhead Lake in California. I used a one and a half horsepower boat on the Columbia River. That boat was perhaps 20 feet long and the engine 733 |
