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Show Record probably fourteen feet. We left on this trip right soon after Christmas in the year 1898. We made the downstream trip in about 3019 two days. I remember the boat called the Charles H. Spencer which they used for pushing barges from Lee's Ferry up to Warm Creek to haul coal; they would push the barges up, then load the barges and drift them down. I never made a trip from Lee's Ferry to Warm Creek on this boat, except at the beginning to help them get started, but I had experience with some other boats. I remember helping with the Charles H. Spencer after they arrived at the ferry in unloading and landing and similar ways. They made two round trips from Warm Creek to Lee's Ferry and another trip from Warm Creek down to Lee's Ferry, where they tied the Charles H. 3020 Spencer up and it was not use after that. I saw it sink. The barge that they built to use in connection with the Charles H. Spencer got away from them and went down the river and they used our ferry boat in its place. There was not much travel that year do we let them take the ferry boat for one trip. On one trip they had five tons of coal on the Charles H. Spencer, down in the hull under the floor; that coal was never unloaded. They used the coal that they hauled on their barges for their boilers and took some of the coal in the Charles H. Spencer and used it for blacksmith purposes; some more of it was hauled off and some of it sunk with 3021 the boat. I suppose they brought probably seven or eight tons of coal down on our ferry boat. I have forgotten how long a time intervened between occasion when I first saw the Charles H. Spencer come down the river and the occasion when it was tied up at the dock after they quit. The same people had some other boats. One of them was called the Violet Louise and was about forty feet long and six feet wide. The name of the company that owned the Charles H. Spencer and the other boats was Nome Gold Dredge Company. 3022 The Violet Louise was equipped with a forty- horsepower gasoline motor and had a propeller. It was brought overland to the river and launched at Lee's Ferry. I never took any long trips on that boat |