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Show Record called Wilson Creek. After that time a four- horsepower Fairbanks- Morse engine was installed on the scow with a stern- wheel. I used that for bringing up one load of supplies. I also used that for going up the river to get some wood above the dredge. It had enough power to go up stream along through the still water where the water was not too heavy. It did not have enough power to go up what is 4928 called Moquie Canyon rapid, some call it Aztec rapid. I did not install the four- horsepower engine in it. It was already installed when I went there to watch the place. I used it there. The scow was about 14 feet wide and about 28 or 30 feet long. I operated it 4929 myself. With the load I had on it, it perhaps drew 8 or 10 inches of water. I took loads of stuff to trade to the Indians. I was running a trading post with the Indians. The trading post was at the dredge. I took this up from Wilson Creek to the trading post, 4930 about a mile or a mile and a half. I received from the Indians blankets, mostly, some baskets and some pottery. I sold some of them in Salt Lake City and shipped some to Denver. The Indians would came in by horses from over by the San Juan, come across the river and holler; then I would go over and get them in the boat and take them back after we finished trading. 4931 While I was there watching the dredge, and before that, I did some sailing on the river. I have been to Halls Crossing several times. Once while I was watching the dredge Mr. Turner came to Halls Crossing. I went down with the boat and helped him go down to the Anderson bar where Strauss had operated and take some engines across the river. He went out by the Hall way. I went back to the dredge, sailing back up the river the entire distance. Between Halls Crossing and Hite I have sailed up stream on all portions of the river except that stretch of the river up above Red Canyon below Hite about four miles. There is a very difficult turn there. You usually get a reverse wind there. I have never struck it when the wind was right to sail up around 4932 there. I do not remember of ever trying to sail down stream. |