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Show Record had as much as two gallons left. We could not have gone up any 1743 further with the gasoline we had left, and I knew that fact at that time, but that is not necessarily why we turned around and came back. When we left we figured on going up as far as we 1744 could with our gas and then return with the current. The trips I made with the outboard motor were merely for the purpose of ex-porimenting with the boat and was within a radius of about six miles from Lee's Ferry. I never left Lee's Ferry with any intention of doing more than running up the river a little distance 1745 and back to camp. This outboard motor had two cylinders and was rated at about eight horsepower. The extent of my ex-perience with motor- boats on the Colorado River is that gained on my first trip when I had the Ford motor and the short trips from Lee's Ferry upstream four or five or six miles with the outboard 1746 motor. The cable on which the ferry ran was anchored on each side of the river and during the time I operated the ferry there was no change in the position of the cable or the place at which it was anchored on each side of the river. During all that time 1747 the ferry boat traveled across the same place in the river. Most of the trouble from sand bars in operating the ferry occurred in 1751 low water periods. Sometimes at a rising stage of water a bar would keep us from going in close to the shore and the bars would 1754- 1755 shift at different stages of the river. Sometimes we would run for two or three weeks without any adjustment or difficulty, then at times we would have difficulties every trip across. The bars that interfered with the operation of the ferry across the river did not form in the channel of the river but were over next to 1755- 1756 bank. When I made my trip up the river with the Ford motor- boat, we traveled about sixteen miles the first day; twenty- four or twenty- five miles the second day, and about eight or ten miles by about noon of the third day, when we stopped our up journey. 1757 From my knowledge of the country I felt with proper advertising and facilities for making the trip a large number of tourists |