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Show boat Witt lie bas Eho hull 783 is eighty , foot Icmg ( twolvo- twolvo tiveIve ) foot ( wheel-on wheelon ) the stern aiid six ( indies inclies ) clear , , ( male- male niallt ) ing over all a length of ( ninety-two ninetytwo iiinety-two iiinetytwo ) and ( one-half onehalf ) feet . . ( 'Tlie Tlie ) beam is ( twenty-five twentyfive ) feet and the ( bo'at boat bdat ) dxewy ( fully ftilly ) equipped , from eighteen to twenty inches of water , light or empty , Construction ( started staftea ) ( July Xuly ) , 1911 , and was finished at the end of August . . ( R . . 3007 . ) The boat was taken to the Colorado River ( from froji'i frojii ) San Francisco by rail and on the seventh of ( Sep- Sep ) tember he was asked to follow it and put it ( to- to ) gether . He started that evening and was gone six months and two days before returning to San Francisco . He went from San Francisco to Marysvale , ( Utah T-Ttah TTtah ) , by train . The material for the boat had not yet arrived so he waited until it came and then loaded it on a wagon and went down to the mouth of Warm Creek . ( R . 3008 . ) The first team started out with four planks on a wagon and it ( required reqidred ) ( thirty-nine thirtynine ) days to go to the mouth of Warm Creek from Marysvale . Four ( ad- ad ) ditional teams started the day after , one of which he accompanied , and it ( took tooh ) ( twenty-three twentythree ) days to make the same trip . Three other teams which started later got to the mouth of Warm Creek fifteen days after the second four started . The first team with the four planks arrived sixteen days after the second four teams got there . Some of the teams made two or three trips , there being two carloads |
