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Show Record used the power of the engine practically all the way going to Good Hope. We made a trip with the Lucy B to Moquie bar and got some rails and things and came back. The boat I have been describing with the automobile en- 4922 engine was the Lucy B. It was built the spring I went to work for the Moquie Company, either 1902 or 1903. There was only one boat built up until I left the river that I know of that had the auto-mobile engine in it. Many other boats were built. We later removed the engine from the Lucy B. We broke a piston ringing in the engine, and it was operated without power from then on. I made several trips in it after the engine was taken off. One trip, Mr. Bennett, Bill Hyer, Charlie Herrick and myself took it to Dandy Crossing, got a load of supplies and came back as far as Good Hope, and Mr. Bennett and I built a raft and brought the raft on down to the Olympia as I remember. We had a load of about two tons. We had no difficulty going up or down stream on that trip except hard work. We sailed a good deal of the 4923 way going up; part of the way we rowed and towed. I know the rapids called " Bull Frog Rapids". We made a trip down to below Halls Crossing at the Little Anderson bar where Strauss operated with the Lucy B and got a load of pipe he had there and came back that day and sailed up a good deal of the way. We sailed practically up the Bull Frog rapids, got about to the top and the wind lulled and we had to hip it a little ways. We sailed most of the way from there on to the Olympia. On that same visit, during the summer of 1902 or 1903, whichever it was, I made several trips besides those I have men- 4924 tioned The first sailing I did on the Colorado River was after we got the engine out of the Lucy B. The following winter after I went to work for Bennett I stayed on the bar. Mr. Herrick and I stayed there. We made several trips to Good Hope. We would go up there after our mail. We would always sail then. We would wait |