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Show 291 ELLSWORTH L. KOLS For Complainant ( R. Vol. 4 - pp. 763- 801.) He resides at Grand Canyon, Arizona, is 53 years old, and has had a common- school education and what a person would pick up in a business way. In 1901 his brother and himself established a photograph studio in the Grand Canyon and it has grown from a small to a nice business in scenic photography. R. 763. His brother and himself in 1911 started at Green River, Wyoming, on the Green River and went through all the canyons of the Green River and from the junction of the Green and the Colorado to Needles. He afterwards got a boat and continued on down to the Gulf. In 1921 he was selected by the government to handle their boats on the survey through Cataract Canyon beginning at Greenriver, Utah, and down to Lees Ferry. The first trip started September eighteenth, 1911. They had two boats of the Galloway type, sixteen feet four inches in length, flat bottomed, decks at either end and a hatch covering the top. R. 764. Nearly all provisions or photograph equipment were carried under the decks and there were two air chambers in either end of the boat, under the decks, with an open compartment in the center for a single oarsman. They had a four foot beam and would draw, when empty, not over four and one- half inches. When loaded up to 1200 pounds it would draw eight inches in the center. The bow was two inches higher than the stern with about ten inches rocker from bow to stern. The rocker allows the boat to be turned very quickly. |
