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Show 1042 The engine on the boat was a Sterling twenty- four horsepower motor. The most speed made against the current with the boat was about two miles an hour, and the deep water as far as possible was avoided, and so were the bars, going up stream, but there " were times we had to get in deep water in order to get over" the bars. He avoided the deep water so as to avoid as much of the current as possible, and so that better time could be made because in places no progress at all could be made against the current. R. 2474. " Q And you always endeavored to get in as shallow, calm water as you could find, where your boats would go along without getting stuck? " A That was our object. " Q At times you got too far out from the deep water and would strike a bar? " A Not always. " Q Not always, but sometime? " A Sometimes strike a bar out in the deep water, or a rock." R. 2474- 2475. ( Note: Discussion by counsel, R. Vol. 13, pp. 2475.) The trip from Lees Ferry to Warm Creek and back was made perhaps eight or ten times, he does not remember the exact number. Bridge Canyon is about ten or twelve miles below the mouth of the San Juan. " THE SPECIAL MASTER: Bridge canyon and Aztec canyon are the same? " MR. BLACKMAR: Yes." R. 2476. On direct examination, when he said he had only gone above the Utah- Arizona line about eight times, he was referring to the |
