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Show 720 This was between Lees Ferry and Warm Creek. When he got forty or fifty miles upstream to last Chance Creek, he turned around and came back, as he thought it was impossible to go further with the equipment he had. He experienced no difficulty in coming back down stream, took it very easy, and made the return journey in about six hours running time. R. Vol. 10, pp, 1728- 1729. Before he made his first trip, he had secured a pilot's license for carrying passengers on the river; is being a Govern-ment license and his boat was licensed also, as he was figuring on taking tourists up to the Rainbow Bridge. R. 1729. He didn't experiment any more with that boat as his next experiment was with an out- board motor. He abandoned the hull of this first boat and it is still at Lees Ferry. The next boat was a small boat about fourteen feet long with a four foot beam. He equipped this boat with an out- board motor and went upstream about seven or eight miles. It didn't have enough power and he had trouble getting on bars with it. R. 1729- 1730. He didn't experiment with any more boats. The engine in the first boat would develop about sixteen horsepower and had a three- blade screw propeller, but he never hauled any passengers up to Rainbow Bridge, as he aban-doned the enterprise; figured it was impossible, as when the river was at high stage he found the current was so swift he couldn't develop enough power to force the boat upstream, and in low water when he had the power to go upstream, the sand- bars would bother him so much he couldn't make it. R. 1731- 1732 |