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Show 498 It is alleged that water runs all the year in the Dirty Devil river at Hanksville. Except for the wagon that " carried our boats down ahead of us" to the Colorado River there was no indication of wagons having come over the road between the point at North Wash where the wagon joined them and the Colorado River at the mouth of the wash. R. 1254. His boat was put into the Colorado River at the mouth of North Wash by Bert Loper, his boatman, and it was in condition to go down stream. R. 1255. " In this case the boat was a skiff manufactured by the Evinrude Company for use with an out- board motor. It was about sixteen feet in length, with a beam of about four feet, moulded hold, and a very pronounced keel. We had a Johnson two- cylinder out- board motor lashed to that, about eight horsepower, and we had two sets of oars." R. 1256. The party left North Wash at 1: 30 p. m. on the 1st day of September. " I am now using sheet 12 of Exhibit 10, which shows the mouth of North wash as about 1671/ 2 miles above Lee's Ferry, Arizona. " Miles on the maps to be referred to from here on are based on Lee's Ferry, mile O. " On this trip the boat ran smoothly when the water was over about a foot and a half in depth, and dragged thereafter. Substantially no notes were made as to where the boat dragged, but it did drag very frequently. |