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Show * t ( i- i ) "- ? . . ' > . v , > . . ' , v . ? . , j '"-" ( fWJtIiiMi'iiiHH fWJtIiiMiiiiHH ) i iimj NK A _ ( 11-W 11W ) _ U 313 two ( men inen ) . besides himself , who ( wA's wAs ) ( -pilot pilot Pilot ) . The motor ( consumed consinned ) about five gallons of gasoline per hour . ( R . 1165 . ) Had trouble with sandbars ( in iii ) and about the landing at Moab . After high ( water -water water ) most always along there at the dock , have to get the boat a short distance above the dock and run the ( wheel Nvheel ) and keep backing into it , to keep it to a place suitable to land and get out the load . ( R . 1165 . ) The dock was on the opposite side of the river from Moab about three miles from town . From , the docks to town a good road crosses the ( bridge bridge' bridge ) I then leads to town . i not always find the deep water on that I of the Colorado between Moab and these oil I in the same place . It changes very often . ( 'I I ) changes probably in three or four days . The worst time , when they happened to be off the river a short time and come back on to it , they are ( com- com ) pletely lost , until you get familiar with the river , and then you have , sometimes , to find the proper place to go , and invariably they would take the wrong course . It is a fact that every change of that river in the stream flow makes a rearrangement in the sand . Now , when that rearrangement comes , not ( neces- neces ) sarily able to tell where the deep water is by any experience that he has had before ; it is all guess work . The best way he could ( tell teld ) would be to get out and ( climb cliinb ) on top of the cabin and look ahead |