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Show 3.262 , not the boat lie had in mind when he answered the question . ( R . . 4955 ) The ( Lucy Litcy ) B did not have a ( twenty-horsepower twentyhorsepower ) motor in it . He does not know whether or not lie has operated a boat of that size with a ( twenty-horsepower twentyhorsepower ) ( motor niotor ) . A boat such as he described , ( twenty-four twentyfour ) feet by eight feet , with a ( twenty-horsepower twentyhorsepower twenty-horsepo-wer twentyhorsepower ) motor , would draw light ( per- per ) haps eight inches of water , and loaded with a ton would draw about twelve inches . ( ( E R ) . 4956 . ) With two tons it would draw about fourteen inches or fifteen inches , ( he lie ) believes , although the amount ( the t1he ) boat ( will -will will ) draw depends on the speed you are ( run- run ) ning , the water it is being run on , where and how the load was located . In loading he would want the bow of the boat loaded a little the lightest . When he said that such a boat would go up the river at all stages of water , the load he had in mind was one ton , properly distributed . Passengers would be an extra load . It is a matter of power on the Colorado to go up the river in a power boat . When he answered the question he did not have any ( pas- pas ) sengers in mind , only a ( one-ton oneton ) load , including the ones who kyere operating the boat and the ton of load to go up the river . He figured on two men and a ton of freight , but he has never seen a boat of that description on the Colorado ( Eiver River ) . . He has never operated a boat of that description on any river . ( R . 4957-4958 . ) ( When AYhen ) he and Klondike went down to the mouth of the San Juan he was never out of the boat to |