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Show Record take pictures and fill the tank of our outboard motor and waiting for the big boat when we got stuck on sand bars, to be pushed off. The big boat got stuck on a san bar at Mile 3.8 when Mr. Baldwin 214 was trying to find a channel over a bar. With our small boat we several times struck a bar at the mouth of Salt Wash, at Mile 3.8. For about four and a half miles that day the river was bending and the channel followed the outside of the bends, when it was generally necessary to take soundings to locate the channel. In practically every case where the river went around the bend there was sufficient channel so that no soundings were necessary, but where the river straightened between bends we made a practice of taking soundings. On Plate 17 of Exhibit 10 I have shown the approximate course followed by the boats with Cotted black lines and have placed a red circle and got each time the large motor- boat was observed to have been stuck and required some pushing off to get off the bar. 215 I have shown by a small red cross the location of all places where our small boat required either lifting of the motor or some opera-tion to get the boat removed. This was my first trip going up the river. On Friday, October 19, our average speed upstream was 1.8 miles per hour, including all stops. During that afternoon I did not notice the big boat stuck at all. On Saturday, October 20, we came to a place where the river makes a very decided bend to the 216 left. At. that point there was a whirlpool. Going upstream from there we observed sand bars and crossing bars, and the larger boat was stuck at least twice. Many times we went on ahead to locate the channel and I have only on the exhibit the times that I 217 actually observed the big boat stuck. I cannot testify from memory, but all of these occasions are indicated on the exhibit. At Mile 22 the big boat stuck but was able to plow its way through. 218 Between Miles 24 and 26 the rock walls are wider apart and the channel is wider and more shallow and exposed to bars, making it 219 more difficult to find the channel. Although generally you feel - 31- |
