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Show 498 ( 'bar bar ) and then bring it down thes channel , in order to get the boat in to the bank . When they woula take the ( boat bodt ) off the cable they would handle it * ( with -with with ) lines , pull it up and let it down again . . ( R . . 1733 . ) The ferryboat had no ( motive liloti-ve lilotive ) power , but was ( swung swuiig ) on a cable that spanned the river and to which it was attached by ( two twc ) other cables . At times , they had to have assistance in operating the ferryboat . When he ran it on the cable , it - was carried across the river by the force of the current . The ( ferryboat erryboat ) at that ( tune time ) belonged to the ( county coulity ) , of which he was a salaried employee , and he operated the boat from May , 1923 , ( until -until until ) ( Febru- Febru ) ary , 1925 . ( R . ( 1733-1734 17331-1731 ) . ) Some days he ( wouldn't wouldnt ) make any trips across the river at all , but when ( he lie ) was crossing cattle in the fall , he thinks he would make as many as sixty or seventy trips a day . Ordinarily , he would ( make inake ) about four or five trips a day . ( R . 1735 . ) ( Cross-excwnination Crossexcwnination Cross-exmninatio Crossexmninatio ) ) z , ( R . Vol . . 10 , pp . 1735- 1757 ) : The trips he made across the river with the ferry boat were more frequent in , the fall . . It was ( gener- gener ) ally iii October and November that lie ( took tool ) cattle across at a low stage of water . . At this stage the river is about two hundred feet wide where the ferry is . . ( R . 1735-1736 . ) The first trip he made upstream from Lees Ferry was iii July of 1926 , , on |