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Show Record up with the current. 1728 Going up the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry to Warm Creek, we would travel in the eddies. On my first trip up the river we went as far as Last Chance - between forty and fifty miles above Lee's Ferry, and then turned around and came back. 1729 At that point I saw it was impossible to go further up with the equipment I had. On the return trip " I took it easy, and coming downstream kept in the current and had no difficulties at all." It took about six hours running time to come back. I had a pilot's license from the government for carrying passengers on the river and obtained a license for my boat because I was figuring on taking tourists from Rainbow Bridge to Lee's Ferry. I did not further experiment with that boat but tried another boat with 1730 an outboard motor. The hull of my first boat is still at Lee's Ferry. In a row boat with an outboard motor I went up seven or eight miles, but it did not have enough power and I had trouble 1731 getting on bars with it. The first boat developed about sixteen horsepower, having a three- blade screw propeller. I hauled no passengers to Rainbow bridge and gave up my enterprise because I figured it was impossible to do it. I found it impossible because when the river was at a higher stage I found the current so swift that I could not develop enough power to force a boat 1732 upstream, and in the lower water, when I had enough power, I could not go upstream without the difficulty of going on sand bars all the time. My first trip up the river was during the first half of July, 1926. I have observed a and bars at Lee's Fer-ry, where I ran a ferry boat for about a year and a half; often bars would form there in half an hour or an hour's time, and when I would cross to the other side the bars would be cut out, so I figured that they would change in an hour's time. They 1733 would come in and go out again. Lots of times these bars would hold the boat as far as fifty feet from the bank and I would be held up anywhere from half to three quarters of an hour getting |
