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Show Record some time in the early part of 1912, and Mr. Spencer asked us at the ferry to watch the steamboat and see that the ropes with which it was tied up were kept tight. There was a plank tied to the boat and into the shore so as to keep it from getting close to the rocks and wearing holes in the side. Practically every day I saw the boat, which was right beside the road, and we would nearly always stop and go and see that everything was all 3065 right. I was at Lee's Ferry every trip that they came down with the steamboat. They made two and a half round trips from Warm Creek. On the last trip I observed some coal down under the top deck. I also know they brought some coal down on our ferry boat, but don't know how much. I don't know how long the company operated its dredge and machinery there, but they were there when I went in July, 1910, and they left in the spring of 1912. I also remember the company's wooden boat, which was about forty feet long. I saw that boat probably two hundred yards below the ferry boat, where they loaded the scow and pushed or pulled it up the river. The Violet Louise and that scow passed out of my sight and were gone several weeks. I next saw the Violet Louise 3069 after it came down the river and was caught and tied up. My brother's testimony concerning the Nullins' boat corresponds with 3070 my recollection. There were two ferry boats. one of them was not satisfactory and Mr. Spencer took that up the river and I didn't see it again. He also took the ferry boat we were using and that came back. Our ferry boat was fourteen feet wide and forty feet long, with a deck over the top, over the gunnels, and a railing on each side, with an apron at the ends. In operating the ferry after my return in 1910 we often encountered sand bars, which sometimes would extend nearly half way across the river. Sometimes, I would work probably three hours in getting the boat to shore, and next day the sand bar would be entirely gone and 3071 another one would later come. Sometimes the bar would appear in the fall of the year and stay all winter; other times it would |
