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Show Record but have ridden around close to Lee's Ferry on it. That boat went up to Warm Creek and on one occasion there was flood caused by heavy rains and it came downstream without a crew. I caught it and brought it to land at Lee's Ferry. I landed it at a point about half a mile below the ferry. I believe that was in the 3024 year 1912, and that boat has not been used since. After it was hauled up on the bank it was not again put in the water. The same company also had the Mullins' boat, which was a metal boat twenty- three feet long and probably four feet wide, equipped with a thirty- five or forty horsepower engine. I saw then go up toward 3025 Ward Creek in that boat, but did not accompany them. They ran that boat at such a rate that the high speed and silt in the river cut the bearings out down by the propeller; then they burned the bearings out and rowed it back downstream. There after they put un new bearings and made a trip or two up the river it to Warm Creek. That boat eventually was tied up on the shore at Lee's Ferry, where it sunk in the sand and remained for about four years, when they dug it out, took it to Lake Mary at Flagstaff, 3026 Arizona, and used it for a pleasure boat. the same company had another metal boat and a wooden boat equipped with small engines of not more than ten horsepower. Those boats got away and went down the river. On one trip I went four or five miles up the river on the Charles H. Spencer, and the boat sat for three days on the 3027 sand at a point about a mile and a half or two miles up from Lee's Ferry. On my upstream trip with the Stanton boats in 1898 I found that the water below Warm Creek was better than that above; there were not so marry rapids or such swift water. I was at Lee's Ferry when the company brought in the dredge machinery and there installed it about a quarter of a mile below the ferry. I worked on that dredge. There were two barges anchored together out in the water and pipes and hose ran from the shore to the machinery that was placed on the barges. They took sand out of the bed of the 3029 river. Their fuel was coal when they could get it, and at other |