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Show Record across with the ferry boat. Sometimes we would take the boat off the cable and follow the channel of the river around the bar and then bring it down to the bank. There was no motor on this 1734 ferry boat, which was swung on a cable and carried across by force of the current. I was a salaried employ of the county between 1735 May, 1923, and about February, 1925. Ordinarily we made four or five trips a day, and on some days in the fall, when they were taking cattle across the river, I have made as high as sixty or seventy trips a day. It took me about two and a half days to make my first trip up the last Chance Creek. Owen R. Clark testified on cross examination as follow: 1735- 1736 The ferrying of cattle across the river to which I have referred generally occurs in October and November, at a very low stage of water, when the river at the ferry is about two hundred feet wide. On my first trip up the river in July, 1926, concerning which I have testified, we intended to go up to Bridge Canyon, from which point you go to Rainbow Bridge. Bridge Canyon is 1737 about seventy miles from Lee's Ferry. In going up the river there is a bad place about three miles above Lee's Ferry and there is another place where the water is fairly narrow and swift just be-fore you reach Warm Creek. I found trouble with the swift water 1738 at those two places and with sand bars. Besides the two places I have mentioned there is another place just below Bridge Canyon where in low water it is swift and shallow and I would anticipate difficulty in getting upstream at that point. I had a Ford motor in my boat that I had taken from a Ford car when I made my first 1739 trip up the river. On that trip we had about two hundred and fifty pounds of supplies, consisting of provisions and a bed roll, and a tank containing ten or eleven gallons of gasoline, and I 1740 had about ten or fifteen gallons in a can. When we turned around 1741 to come back we had about two gallons of gasoline left. On the 1742 entire trip we were out three nights. On our downstream trip we used up what gasoline we had left and I could not swear that we |