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Show 1101 clear water into your cooling system and can keep that water at a sufficiently low temperature so you won't lose it, you wouldn't have may trouble from scouring, would you? " A. With clean water you could have no trouble with scouring where the clean water was in contact. Where you were in contact with the scouring silt on other parts you would still have the difficulty arising from the fact that the Colorado silt is probably sharper than any other stream, and would inflict considerable damage to other parts. You eliminate only the pump trouble." R. 2596- 2597 Further examination ( R. Vol. 14 pp. 2597- 2599) There is a difficulty from the silt in the river in connection with operation of engine used with paddle wheels on a boat " which I am not technically able to explain, but which is present on the Missouri and Mississippi to a certain extent on certain types of engines." " Q. You are familiar with the fact that some of these boats from Lee's Ferry were equipped with paddle wheels, aren't you? " A. I know they were attempting paddle wheel navigation, and I have heard something about an attempt to operate the tunnel propeller type boat. " Q. I wondered whether the paddle wheel engine met with the name difficulty? " A. I have heard it mentioned on the Missouri and Mississippi as one of the troubles. |