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Show down from the side canyons 1259 would extend out for a few days , but the natural flow of the river is so much larger where the main stream is that it ( car- car ) ries it on , and he has never experienced any ( diffi- diffi ) culties in navigation because of these conditions . . ( R . . 4942-4943 . ) There ivere years when he stayed through the summer months and there was a period of more than a year when he did not leave the river at all . ( R . 4943 . ) That period was from the time lie went to work for the ( Moquie Aloquie ) Mining Company , up until after he watched the dredge . He was there all that time continuously . Might have been out for a day or two making a trip to Loa , or maybe a week or two , and that ( was -was was ) in a period of about two and a half years . He has had other experience at other times and places with power boats in the States of Utah , Oregon , and California . ( R . 4944 . ) He has had personal experience with four ( horse- horse ) power , one horsepower , and one and ( one-half onehalf ) horsepower motor boats , which last motor was in the Lucy B . . ( Pour-horsepower Pourhorsepower Four-horsepower Fourhorsepower ) motor boats have been about ( twenty-eight twentyeight ) feet long and about ( four- four ) teen feet wide . This was a scow that he used when he was watching the dredge and for trips he has mentioned . ( R . . 4948 . ) The launch he used , which was about ( twenty-six twentysix ) feet long and perhaps seven or eight feet wide , had more horsepower than any of them . He would judge it was ( thirty thixty ) or forty horsepower , and he operated this at ( Arrow- Arrow ) head Lake in California . |