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Show As we were going down 146 to Lees Ferry on our way out in 1921 , ( I 1 ) saw the ( California-Edison CaliforniaEdison ) boat . It ( couldn't couldnt ) get up the river with its load of supplies . It had a good engine but a very small stern wheel . I loaded some of the supplies into my boat and took them up to the party that need them . ( R . 4761-2 , Vol . 27 . ) In 1922 ( I 1 ) again went to Lees Ferry and thence up to Halls Crossing with four boats in our party . The witness , } Freeman , was in this party . Two of our motors went bad and f with the other two motors we took the four boats upstream , taking a supply of gasoline for the round trip , our oil and supplies . I think each boat had a load of 700 pounds . There was plenty of water in the river . We had difficulty in getting up one place . I took up my boats just as they were but a man got out and held the nose of the boat , guiding it . ( R . 4765-8 , Vol . 27 . ) Both Messrs . Jones and Freeman : simply wore their engines out by not taking care of them . I had no trouble with my motor and ( with -with with ) a simple device avoided any difficulty from sand or in keeping my engine cool . In 1921 ( I 1 ) had no trouble with my Evinrude motor and ( didn't didnt ) use a pump at all in my cooling system . They put radiators on some of the larger boats , using no river water at all . However , the river water ( doesn't doesnt ) injure your engine , but if sand gets into a pump it may injure it . The simple device I have described avoids any navigation trouble on account of mud or sand in the water . ( R . 4769-73 , Vol . 27 . ) In 1923 ( I 1 ) went to Lees Ferry and thence to Warm Creek in the same boat of the ( California-Edison CaliforniaEdison ) Company that I had seen before when it ( couldn't couldnt ) get up . the river . They had consulted me with reference to changes in the boat , had taken out the ( 40-horsepower 40horsepower 10-horsepowe'r 10horsepower ) engine originally installed in it and put in a second hand engine out of a Ford car ; they changed the paddle ( wheel Nvheel ) from a ( 4-foot 4foot ) to an ( 8-foot 8foot ) wheel and put the paddles much farther apart . ( R . 4774-6 , Vol . 27 . ) Mr . Marrs operated the boat on that upstream trip and we had no trouble ; it went up the stream fine , had no difficulty in going up any water we encountered and was ( not -not not ) stuck on any sand bars . The same is true of the return trip ( down doNvn ) stream . ( R . 4798 , - Vol . 27 . ) If you have a ( 4-foot 4foot ) paddle wheel and a ( 2-horse- 2horse ) power engine , it might work because it ( wouldn't wouldnt ) turn the wheel so fast that it ( wouldn't wouldnt ) be able . to hold some water . If the paddles are ( too -too too ) close together , or if the paddle wheel is too small , it will turn so fast that you will get no power . |