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Show 722 Some days he wouldn't make any trips across the river at all, but when he was crossing cattle in the fall, he thinks he would make as many as sixty or seventy trips a day. Ordinarily, he would make about four or five trips a day. R. 1735. Cross Examination: R.( Vol. 10, pp. 1735- 1737.) The trips he made across the river with the ferry boat were more frequent in the fall. It was generally in October and November that he took cattle across at a low stage of water. At this stage, the river is about two hundred feet wide where the ferry is. R. 1735- 1736. The first trip he made upstream from Lees Ferry was in July of 1926, on which trip he was accompanied by Bob Marshall. He decided they would go up the Colorado River about seventy miles to the mouth of Bridge Canyon, where the Rainbow Natural Bridge is located, but after starting they only went up about fifty miles and encountered a bad place about three miles above Lees Ferry where it was narrow and swift, and another place just before he got to Warm Creek that was narrow and swift. R. 1737. There were sand- bars all along which also caused them trouble. He afterwards found a place just below Bridge Canyon that he believes would have been worse than either one of the places that he has mentioned. The Ford motor he had on this boat would develop about sixteen horsepower, in his opinion. As he recalls, he secured his pilot's license in May or June, 1926. R. 1738. |
