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Show 670 loaded at all times , , both coillihitr UP and coming ( down-they downthey ) would have been drawing from six to eight inches . That is a difficult thing to say ( -withr withr ) ¬ out actual measurement . . ( R . . 2573o . ) To aid in the upstream navigation used three , Evinrude outboard motors , one new Elto motor which he had sent direct to him from the factory . That gave us one for each of those skiffs at the start ( R ( 2573 25734 ) ) . . . . . . ( 'The The ) Elto Motor was equipped at the factory with a hinge . The Evinrudes , which originally had a perfectly stiff engine , were clamped on to a hinged frame on the back of the boat , so they had all the advantage of my Elto ; because of the hinge the motor struck a very much lighter blow than would otherwise be the case . There were six men in the party going upstream . ( R . 2574 . ) There were four boats . He was alone ; a boatman by the name of Bill Jones was alone , also ; in Tom ( Wiminer's Wiminers ) boat there was one assistant ; ( "Wimmer's Wimmers ) son , Andy , 9W also had one man with him . . ( R . 2574 . ) . This trip was not an engineering trip to survey the river ; it had no commercial purpose ; ; ( -DUr DUr ) . ( La- La ) Rue was very much interested in the river , . He asked a number of individuals whom he ( de- de ) sired to gain a fuller knowledge of the river , ( in- in ) eluding Mr . Arthur Powell Davis , and a number of others ( -whose whose ) names are mentioned in his book , he asked them to make the trip ( do-wn down ) river . . As a writer , he had been making some study of the Colorado river development . He was asked |