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Show 1066 The purpose of the trip up to Dandy Crossing was for locating claims and to see what could be done about navigation. Claims were actually located by Mr. Jones, the surveyor. Later there was a larger boat brought in there. R. 2537. This boat, he believes, was twenty- seven feet long, about five and one- half foot beam, and drew about two and one- half feet of water. It was equipped with a four cylinder gas engine rated at forty horsepower, he believes. There was also a scow in connection with this boat. He took the large boat and the scow up stream about the last of August, 1910. R. 2538. The purpose of the trip was to go up to the mouth of Warm Creek and get some coal. R. 2539. " Q Just tell me the progress of the boat up stream. " A Well, we hitched the big boat on to this scow and started up stream; whenever we got stuck on a sandbar, or stuck, the crew got out and pulled it with ropes." R. 2539. The crew consisted of four men besides himself and be would judge they got stuck about ten times between Lees Ferry and Warm Creek. The was a coal prospect up from the mouth of Warm Creek some miles but he couldn't say just what distance, but some coal was dug. They eventually got the boat up to Warm Creek, where they stayed over night, some repairs were made to the launch, about three hundred pounds of coal were loaded, and they came back. R. 2539. They ran on to sandbars about twice, he believes, coming back down. On the trip from Dandy Crossing to Lees Ferry, the best water was encountered below Warm Creek. The only other trips made by him in the large launch were |