No. 14 Original, Abstract of the Testimony, vol. 1, pp. 1-748

Abstract Testimony, V 1, p. 0709

ran on to a sand bar on 709 the right side of the river ; ; coming up they avoided that ; going down assumed the best water was over there . He ( doesn't doesnt ) recall what part of the propeller was broken , but remembers it took possibly ( one-half onehalf ) hour or so to repair it . ( ( E R ) . 2714 . ) In the work of meandering a stream the ( sixteen- sixteen ) foot boat with outboard motoy he Was using would 7 sometimes be in ( the tlic ) middle or sometimes along the shore and would be used to cross ( back bacl ) and forth . At times they ( would woald ) beach the boat and at other ' times went right down the river with the meander line . ( ( E R ) . 2715 . ) It would be necessary to hug the bank as ( much inuch ) as he could and ( in hi ) doing this he would sometimes touch sand . At the time he went on the big boat in 1926 to meet ( Mr AIr ) . Moore at Mill Creek , Mr . ( Moore's Moores Moore7s ) ( sur- sur ) veying activities ( were iere ) down the Colorado River east of No . 1 well between No . ( 1 I ) and No . 2 . ( ( E R ) . 2716 . ) He had made an appointment the day before to meet Mr . Moore at the mouth of Mill Creek . There was no dock at this point , nor was it a usual ( stop- stop ) ping place . He requested the man in charge of the boat to go ashore and let him off to keep this ( ap- ap ) ( pointment pointi-nelat pointinelat ) and the boat attempted to do this . To do this the boat did not have to leave the channel . ( R . . 2717 . ) The channel went right up to within a few feet of the shore and they stuck there on a sand bar or the mud because they attempted to