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Show 3308 Dobbin- C 1333 A On any stream. Q Is it not a fact that you have less difficulty coming up stream with a motor boat than going down stream, because the water is not pulled out from under the boat by the operation of the motor as you go up stream, whereas it does have that effect at times going down stream? BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Do you know? Do you know the answer to what? A I don't believe I do. MR. FARNSWORTH: What was the answer of the witness? MR. BLACKMAR: He said he didn't know. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q You don't wish to be understood as saying that you had serious difficult in going up and down the Colorado river, do you? A Except we were aground a great deal in a shallow draft boat. Q When you came aground you endeavored to shove off into deeper water? A Absolutely, yes sir. Q And succeeded in doing so in all instances, didn't you? A At time we had to push the boat several hundred feet, zigzag it across the stream and back and straight ahead to get into deep water. Q That is when you got over on the side where there was no channel? |
