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Show 1084 for each of those skiffs at the start. R. 3573 The Elto Honor was equipped at the factory with a hinge. The Evinrudes. which originally had a perfectly stiff engine were clamped on to a hinged frame on the back of the boat, " so they had all the advantage of my Elto because of the hinge the motor struck a very much lighter blow than would otherwise be the case." There were six man in the party going upstream. R. 2574. " Q. How were they distributed in the boats? " A. There ware four boats. I was alone. I think a boatman by the name of Bill Jones was alone, also. I think in from Wimmer's boat there was one assistant; I believe his son, Andy, also had one man with him. I think that is the distribution. " I know I was alone, very much so." R. 2574. This trip was not an engineering trip to survey the river; It had no commercial purpose; Mr. LaRue was very much interested in the river " He asked a number of individuals whom he desired to gain a fuller knowledge of the river, including Mr. Arthur Powell Davis, and a number of other those names are mentioned in my book, he asked them to make the trip down the river. " As a writer, I had been making some study of the Colorado river development. I was asked originally for the purpose of giving me a fair opportunity to do a magazine article upon it. |
