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Show 90 bar , where 1 would load my supplies . At other times I would go up as far as ( Kite Hite ) , but I would have to tow the boat over the rapids . It was 22 feet long , 4 feet or more wide , and had a draft of 6 or 8 inches in addition to my propeller , which was 14 or 16 inches . The propeller would strike on the rocks . It had a 12 horse power engine , and during high water sunk at Tickaboo and I took the engine out . In about 1906 I built a motor boat with a tunnel designed to keep my propeller off the rocks . This was a ( 24-foot 24foot ) boat with a draft of about 16 inches at the stern , and I used the same engine that had been in my other boat . This boat ( didn't didnt ) do very well , and I took the engine out and used it as a sail boat ; also used oars ( on 3n ) it to some extent . That boat is probably still there on the river . ( R . 3184-8 , Vol . 17 . ) 1 have sailed over rapids going upstream and find the water better for sailing when it is at a stage four feet above low water . At one time I put a small outboard motor in a ( 14-foot 14foot ) boat but the bearings wore out in the muddy water and it ( didn't didnt ) really have sufficient power for swift water . ( R . 3189 , Vol . 17 . ) I believe I was on the Colorado River every year from 1897 to 1920 in the section from ( Kite Hite ) doNvn to Lees Ferry , but was not boating during all of that time . ( R . 3191 , Vol . 17 . ) 1 recall one experience in 1898 when there was an ice gorge . Hite and two other men were in a boat and I helped them get to shore ; they lost their supplies . Several times I have seen ice gorges at different places , and at Good Hope have seen the ice piled 15 feet high on the island . . I have crossed the river on ice , but it was where the ( -ice ice ) keeps it frozen together , and I have no recollection of ice ever forming there except on the sides of the river ; how - ever , an ice cake will catch and then another ( will -will will ) come on top of it and they will freeze together . I ( don't dont ) think the ice ever freezes so you have solid ice across the river , , but an ice gorge or ice jam may form clear across . . ( R . 3191-4 Vol 17 ) , . . Mr . Stanton had a boat built in Wisconsin and shipped to Lees Ferry . I went down the river in a ( flat-bottomed flatbottomed ) boat and came back upstream with the Stanton boat . . On the downstream trip I had no real difficulty . . I ( "never never ) had any difficulties in going down , , as long as we tried to stay in the middle of the river . " However , , on that trip we were posting notices and would have to run from one corner of the claim to another , and when we ( would -would would ) go |
