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Show 5305 He went from Flagstaff , Arizona , ( aer-Oss aerOss ) ( the tlle ) Painted Desert to Lees Ferry , Arizona . After he arrived at Lees Ferry , he went on up ( the the- the ) Colorado River in a boat built by the Southern ( Cali- Cali ) fornia Edison Company , a distance of about . ( twenty-eight twentyeight ) miles to the mouth of Warm Creek , which he believes is located just inside the state ( of of' of ) ( Utah 'Utah Utah ) , and then went on horseback over the mesa . . ( R . 1849 . ) It was a ( flat-bottom flatbottom ) scow with flared bow and ( stern-no sternno ) , the stern was not flared ; ( no- no no ) . slope on either side ; my impression was it pointed . a little at the bow ; square sides , and had a barrel structure in the stern of the boat to enclose the ( pro- pro ) peller . It was propelled by a marine engine , and , that engine was tied up to a shaft ; the shaft ( pro- pro ) pelled the screw . ( My T-Hy THy ) recollection is it was a ( forty- forty ) horsepower engine ; I can not say definitely how much horsepower engine , but my recollection it ( was was- was ) ( forty-horsepower fortyhorsepower ) engine . The purpose of the load was to carry supplies , if possible , from Lees Ferry up the river to the rapids below the mouth of the . San Juan River , to replenish these topographic parties that would be operating from that as a ( cen- cen ) ter , and they had hopes we would take a ( consider- consider ) able amount of supplies up by that ( -boat boat ) . The supplies carried were about a thousand pounds food supplies , and then when the ( various- various various ) men that were along with the expedition were ( in- in ) side the ( boat-there boatthere ) were seven or eight ( men-that menthat ) would make about ( twenty-five twentyfive ) hundred pounds |