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Show 721 He has observed the sand- bars in the river at Lees Ferry where he ran a ferry boat for about one and a half years, and lots of times the bars would form in half an hour of an hours time and when he would go back across [ the river] the bars would be cut out. R. 1732. This prevented the ferry boat from getting in to the bank as lots of times the bars would hold the boat as far as fifty feet out from the bank, preventing navigation across the river, requiring him to put in the boat so as to throw the water in and cut the bars out. This would hold him up any where from one half to three quarters of an hour, and sometimes they were not able to do that, but would have to go across the bar if the water was shallow enough, and at times take the boat off the cable, follow the channel up the river around the bar and then bring it down the channel, in order to get the boat in to the bank. When they would take the boat off the cable, they would handle it with lines, pull it " up and let it down again." R. 1733. The ferry boat had no motive power, but was swung on a cable that spanned the river and to which it was attached by two other cables. At times, they had to have assistance in operating the ferry boat. When he ran it on the cable, it was carried across the river by the force of the current. The ferry boat at that time belonged to the county, of which he was a salaried employee, and he operated the boat from May, 1923, until February, 1925. R. 1733- 1734. |
