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Show Record with reference to the constant shifting of channels, I expected at the time I marked them that those markings would be of value to me. Very few of such markings were of value because the 2473 channel changed before I got back. I was fooled every day and stuck about twice a day and from that up to one hundred times a day, depending on how far we went. If we had gone far enough it would probably have been two hundred times. My upstream channel 2474 was different from my downstream channel. The engine in my boat was rated at about twenty- four horsepower. In going upstream I would keep out of the deep water as far as I could without getting on to the bars and would avoid the current as much as I could. I did this to make better time and always tried to get in as shallow, calm water as I could find without getting stuck. 2475 Sometimes, but not always, I would get too far out from the deep water and strike a bar, and at times would strike a bar or a rock in deep water. I made the trip from Lee's Ferry to Warm 2676 Creek perhaps six, eight or ten times. The paddle wheel I spoke of very greatly improved the navigation of the boat, making the going just possible. Before installing the paddle wheel we towed the boat most of the time; with the paddle wheel we were 2477 able to make a little more progress. Even with the paddle wheel 2478 we sometimes had to tow the boat over a bar. During the second year after I cut the bow of the boat off and added four feet on to the point of the bow, I don't remember whether we left the 2479 winch on the boat or not. During the second year we put a large paddle wheel on the boat and used a slower speed engine. The larger paddle wheel, which was eight feet in diameter where the boat was quipped with the large paddle wheel, I have no knowledge from actual observation as to what trouble I might have had 328 1445 |