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Show 181 , with channel half mile long ; light , ( boats boats- boats ) drawing 6 inches able to go over the rapid without striking ( bot- bot ) ( tom toin ) ; rapid is rough , with rough waves ( R . 2287- 2291 ) . ( 1S97-1S9S 1S971S9S 1897-1898 ) , ( Sumner Suniner ) . - ( M . R . 131 , Abs . ( 11 R ) . vol . 2 , pp . 814-815 : ) Has seen boats towed upstream ; plenty of swift water between Olympia and Good Hope Bars ; no other boats there except skiffs ( R . 3122-3130 ) . 1897 to 1920 , Bennett . - ( M . R . 131-132 , Abs . R . vol . 2 , pp . 826-837 : ) Towing boats up river considered easiest way of getting up river ( R . 3182 ) ; first motor boat ( tried' tried tried ) on river was in 1902 ; it did not have power to go upstream over rapids ; tried both stern and side wheels on boat ; side wheel got caught on rocks because of swift water ; could not hold boat ; one side ( out-ran outran ) the other ( R . 3183-3184 ) ; then tried ( 24-ft 24ft ) . boat , with tunnel propeller , stern had draft of 16 ( inches inclies ) ; equipped it with engine ; the boat ( was- was was ) not a success as it had too much back draft ; it would sit down in the water and drew the water along behind it ; last motor boat ( he be ) used did not have sufficient power to overcome swift water ( R . 3185-3189 ) ; between Good Hope and mouth of Warm Creek are a number of rapids ; Bull Frog is . a heavy rapids , life boat got stuck going through there ; there are two places in Colorado River where . a ledge runs across the river , one at Shock Rapids or Bar , where lifeboat was in difficulty , then they had to wade back and forth and finally found cracks , 35023-4-13 |