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Show 6786 Wimmer- D 4775 THE SPECIAL MASTER: As what? MR. BLACKMAR: Hearsay. THE SPECIAL MASTER: The question was, had he been con-sulted. It is evidently going to call for conversation. MR. FARNSWORTH; No, I am not going to call for conversation. THE SPECIAL MASTER: The question is competent, as far as he has gone. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q: When you arrived there at Lees Ferry in 1923 and took this trip on this same boat that in 1921 could not get up the A Yes sir. A They had taken out a forty- horsepower marine engine and put in a Ford engine, second- hand engine out of a car. They had raised their wheel from about a four- foot wheel to an eight- foot wheel. Q Do you know what the horsepower of the Ford engine was? A No, I don't know; a regular Ford engine that goes in the Ford car, model T, old Ford engine. Q The original paddle wheel was how deep? A About four feet, as I remember It. Q When they put he Ford in, they put in an eight- foot |