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Show Record there I took out the boiler and engine and put them on shore with the cable. A year later I went back there and found the cable stretched out, one end of it on a tree, and I suppose the boat was on the other end, although I didn't see it. I later built 3413 another launch and went down the river and got my boiler and engines that had been in the Black Eagle and brought them back up to the town of Green River. I do not remember a boat called the Betsy Ann. After asking examining counsel whether the Wilmont is the boat that was sunk up near the Denver and Rio Grande bridge and upon receiving a negative answer, the witness continued his testimony: I think the Wilmont was right below Wolverton's house. I saw what I judge to be the boat sticking up there. I didn't give any name to my next boat but made it lighter 3414 so that it would run easier. That boat is now down at Tickaboo Rapid near Cass Hite's place. I sold it to Messrs. Fletcher and Butler. That boat was about twenty- eight feet long, with a draft empty of about eight inches. It was powered with a double cylinder Northwestern engine of ten horsepower. After they launched the boat I went down to that section of the Colorado River and spent thirty days working on gold bar. The boat was there when I left, tied up just below Tickaboo Rapid, which they couldn't make with the boat and it was tied up there. I never operated the boat down there. 3415 I was engaged in the work of taking some machinery down the river for use on government survey, being employed by John F. Richardson of the Reclamation Service. I had a fourteen by four foot boat, with a six horsepower engine, and took Mr. Richardson down to the head of the Cataracts in that boat. Mr. Richardson told me he had a party of twelve men coming in with ten tons of supplies to be taken down and wanted to know how I would get it there. I told him to make a barge and take it down, and I built 474 |