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Show ; < A * * * * , - * * , it < * * - . , . -- . * i . ( jiJ-i jiJi ) * MM * -- . . ( 'ivs6 ivs6 ) ( 'isifc isifc ) v , ( '"''airtaia airtaia ) . 1364 had a little trouble as they ( couldn't couldnt ) go through smooth all the time . Sometimes they would be on half an hour and sometimes longer , but were never detained so much but what they would make the round trip in two days . They made trips where they loaded up with twenty tons and unloaded in one day . The round trip was forty miles . When they got on sand bars , it was on account of not having an experienced man running the boat . He was a good practical man in every other way , but he never had experience on the water . Virgil Baldwin was in charge of the boat at that time . He has never personally handled any power boats himself . He has run the big boat a little , but Virgil ( Baldwin 'Baldwin Baldwin ) was with him . He ( didn't didnt ) understand ( ma- ma ) , chinery . ( R . 5296-5297 . ) No work or money has been spent , as far as he knows , in improving the navigability of the Colorado River . There was an ice gorge they had to shoot , biit he ( didn't didnt ) see that . ( R . 5297-5298 . ) He does not know of any characteristic or condition ( -of of ) the Colorado ( River Rhrer ) or of the Green River , so far as he has navigated them , which would interfere with the navigation of those portions of the river in a boat ( -of of ) two feet draft , handled by one who knew the river . ( R . 5298 . ) If they would stay on the shallows , it is all right ; if they get off the shallows , sometimes of course there is a little trouble ; he had sounded with an ( -oar oar ) on each side , so as to know when they were going to strike a ( sandbar-guide sandbarguide ) the boat . ( R . . 5299 . . ) ] |
