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Show Record In the operation of the 20 horsepower boat that I said could be operated up stream, I contemplated a flat bottom boat, 4955 either 24 or 28 feet long and about 8 feet wide, I had in mind any 4956 stage of water. I do not know that I have operated a boat of that size with a 20 horsepower motor. Such a boat would perhaps draw about 8 inches of water light. Loaded with one ton it would draw 4957 about 12 inches, and with two tons would draw somewhere around 14 or 15 inches, I think. The amount that your boat will draw depends upon the speed that you are running and the water that you are running on, and where and how the load was located; so those are hard questions to answer. When I said that such a boat could go up the river in all stages of the water I had a ton load in mind. I did not have any 4958 passengers in mind; it was a ton load. That includes the ones that are operating the boat and a ton of load to go up the river. I figured two men on the boat and a ton of freight. I have never seen a boat of that description on the Colorado River and I have 4959 never operated a boat of that description on any river. When Klondike and I went down to the mouth of San Juan River we were never out of the boat to assist it in its course. I just guess at the width of the channel down at Lake Canyon. That was 25 years ago. I have not thought very much about it since. I did not get out and pole it. The year I was acting as watchman the Stanton dredge was located about a mile or a mile and a half above what we call 4960 Wilson Creek, and a mile below Moquie Canyon. Moquie Canyon comes in on the west side. I recall a bar called the New Year bar. The Stanton dredge was up the river from that about a mile or a mile and a half. The New Year bar was about a mile long. I speak of the 4961 point where they placer mined right across from Wilson Creek. There was a road down Wilson Creek. Stanton used that road to bring in his materials and supplies. I used it to bring in |