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Show ( "I I ) found the largest size 85 outboard motor , ( two-cylinder twocylinder ) , to do very well . The bearings are ( cased eased ) in so the silt ( doesn't doesnt ) bother them . A ( home-made homemade ) row boat that would carry one thousand pounds with a Johnson outboard motor will go up the river in fine shape / ' When I made that statement I had in mind only some little section of the river and referred only to parts of the river where the water was quiet . ( R . 3043-5 , Vol . 16 . ) The Johnson outboard motor that I had in mind when I mentioned it in my letter to Mr . Burdick was a 10 horse power motor . ( R . 3047 , Vol . 16 . ) ( Frank r1rank ) T . ( Johnson Johmon ) testified : I was ( bom born ) at Lees Ferry , in 1878 , lived there until 1896 , and have been there at different times since then . ( R . 3060-1 , Vol . 17 . ) ( I 1 ) never saw the steam boat Charles H . Spencer in operation but remember seeing it when it still had steam up . I recall seeing a few wagons and some machinery on the boat but ( didn't didnt ) see any coal then . Later I saw coal brought on our ferry boat and saw some coal on the deck of the Charles H . Spencer . I remember seeing the Violet Louise and the scow , and my ( brother's brothers ) testimony concerning the Mullins boat corresponds with my recollection . ( R . 3063-9 , Vol . 17 . ) In operating the ferry boat , after my return in 1910 , we often encountered sand bars ( which -which which ) would sometimes extend nearly half way across the river . We could always get our ( passen passen- passen ) gers off the boat ; had plenty of plank that we would lay across the sand where it was miry . Usually these sand bars would form after the fall rains , in July or August . I have never been up the Colorado ( River RiVLr ) more than about seven miles in a boat . ( R . 3070-2 , Vol . 17 . ) In 1921 ( I 1 ) was on the survey for the California Edison Company for two months and came down the river from the mouth of Rock Creek to Lees Ferry with four other men in a row boat . There were a number of places where the bottom of the boat would drag on the sand , ( but -but but ) I recall only one place where we had to get out and lift the boat off . ( R . 3072-5 , Vol . 17 . ) ( While VMile ) on this survey trip most of our supplies came overland from Lees Ferry , although we received some supplies at one point by boat . The survey was back from the rim of the canyon , at places 15 miles . We had a pack outfit with the party but returned to Lees Ferry via the river because that was the best and the easiest method of travel . ( R . 3077-8 , Vol . 17 . ) At Lees Ferry there is a sort of point which |