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Show 773 Desert to Lees Ferry, Arizona. After he arrived at Lees Ferry, he went on up the Colorado River in a boat built by the Southern California Edison Company, a distance of about twenty- eight miles to the mouth of Warm Creek, which he believes is located just inside the state of Utah, and then went on horseback over the mesa. R. 1849. " Q. What kind of boat was this? " A. Flat bottom scow with flared bow and stern -- no, the stern was not flared; no slope on either side; my impression was it pointed a little at the bow; square sides, and had a barrel structure in the stern of the boat to enclose the propeller. Do you want a description of that boat? " Q. Yes. " A. It was propelled by a marine engine, and that engine was tied up to a shaft; the shaft propelled the screw. My recollection is it was a forty- horsepower engine; I can not say definitely how much horsepower engine, but my recollection it was forty horsepower engine. " Q. Do you recall the draft of the boat? " A. Well, that would depend on the load. " Q. Well, do you know how much of a load it was built to carry? " A. Well, the purpose of the load was to carry supplies if possible, from Lees Ferry up the river to the rapids below the mouth of the San Juan River, to replenish these topographic parties that would be operating from that as a center, and we had hopes we would take a considerable amount of supplies up; by that boat. |