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Show downstream trip with our equipment 51 the width of the two scows that were fastened together was 17 or ( 18 IS ) feet and the length 24 feet . ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) boat , the Marguerite , was tied behind the scows and shoved them . The drilling machinery weighed about 2 % tons and our entire load on the two scows was possibly four tons . ( R . 2123-4 , Vol . 11 . ) One of our motor boats pushed the Betsy Ann downstream . We had provisions , supplies , etc . , loaded on that boat to the amount of 2V & or 3 tons . The row boats were moored ( along along- along ) side of the Marguerite and the two scows . ( R . 2124-6 , Vol . 11 . ) We used coal for fuel in our drilling operations and on the down trip we took coal with us and Mr . Wimmer would bring us more coal on his subsequent trips ( while 'while while ) drilling operations were in progress . I imagine he made four or five round trips furnishing us with coal and supplies ; about one trip every two weeks was his schedule . ( R . 2129 , Vol . 11 . ) He would bring about 1000 pounds of coal at a trip on the Marguerite . ( R . 2130 , Vol . 11 . ) When we took the outfit upstream the Betsy Ann carried 600 or 800 pounds of coal besides our machinery , ( weighing weigbing ) about 2500 pounds , and three passengers . It also towed our row boats . The actual running time of the ( 95-mile 95mile ) trip upstream when we took out our drill outfit was 361 2 hours . There were ten or twelve men , including Mr . Wimmer , ( vith with ) us . ( R . 2137-9 , Vol . 11 . ) Our cook was a woman who went down the river and came back up with us . ( R . 2141 , Vol . 11 . ) When we went down on our survey with Captain Yokey we took sufficient supplies with us to last the entire month that we were gone . ( R . . 2142-4 , Vol . 11 . ) Before making the motor boat trips from the junction up to Moab , when I had occasion to go out during the progress of drilling operations , neither I nor Mr . Shaw who operated the motor boat had ever before had any familiarity with that stretch of river . On the first trip I walked six miles up to Moab , but on ( my -my my ) subsequent trips I traveled the entire distance in the boat . ( R . 2144-5 , Vol . 11 . ) Harry McDonald testified : I am 77 years old . ( R . 2150 , Vol . 12 . ) About 1888 my partner and I went to North Wash on the Colorado River and with five other men I remained there mining and prospecting for gold . I built a flat skiff for use on the river in crossing and with which to reach the bars . ( R . 2165-8 , Vol . 12 . ) ( Kite Hite ) then had an outfit two or three miles below us . ( R . 2170 , Vol . 12 . ) Later I joined the Stanton party at Green River , Utah , then known as Blake . There were sixteen ( men inen ) in the party and I had |