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Show object there to designate such 65 a place . I did this because if I knew when I was approaching a bad place it would enable me to steer by it with greater ease . When I took Mr . Loper and the cook upstream I did not attempt to mark the river because I knew that was out of my territory and that would be my only trip , my territory being below Warm Creek . I ( had liad ) no chance to observe any changes in the bars or river bed above Warm Creek and the changing conditions that I have referred to are all below the ( Utah-Arizona UtahArizona ) line . I endeavored to fix the places where I had encountered ( diffi diffi- diffi ) ¬ culties because I expected to encounter that difficulty on ( suc- suc ) ceeding trips . ( Very 17ery ) few of such markings were of value because the channel changed before I got back , but ( never never- never ) theless I continued the practice with the expectation that I would meet the same difficulty there . ( R . 2468-72 , Vol . 13 . ) In 1922 we put a larger paddle wheel on the boat and used a slower speed engine , which was an improvement on the smaller paddle wheel , and we managed to get up the river ( without withoat ) towing so much . Never having gone up to Warm Creek after the big paddle wheel was installed , I have no knowledge from actual observation as to what trouble I might have encountered on that trip . When I took Loper up the river we had the small paddle wheel on the boat ; the journey was approximately six days and was an average trip . ( R . 2479-81 , Vol . 13 . ) ( Franklin Franklitt ) Thomas testified : I am a civil engineer and in 1922 was in Glen Canyon , entering the river at Halls ( Cross Cross- Cross ) ¬ ing , where Mr . Wimmer met us with four boats . They were ( 16-foot 16foot ) skiffs with square ends and two of them were equipped with Evinrude motors , the others having no motors . There were sixteen men in our party and we tied two boats together in tandem fashion with a motor in each of the two stern boats . We shipped water at the worst rapid but ran them all and did not wear life preservers . I ( don't dont ) recall grounding ( on oil ) the rapids but on one or two occasions we grounded on rock ledges a short distance above the rapids and were probably aground several times a day on sand bars , but it usually did not take more than five minutes to get off . We left Halls Crossing September 8 and arrived at Lees Ferry September 16 , our purpose being to investigtae the possibility of obtaining water and power for Pasadena . We carried supplies and bedding with us and in one boat with six passengers we had somewhere between 500 to ( 1000 iLOOO ) |