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Show Record stern wheel and a new bow. That year my entire work consisted of hauling supplies and equipment up to the dam site located about five miles above Lee's Ferry, and we went up perhaps for a distance of ten miles in the boat. We had less trouble on the stretch of river up as far as Warm Creek, where the river becomes 2467 wider and shallower. From Bridge Canyon, down eight or ten miles above Lee's Ferry the condition of the river is practically uniform. When I left the second year this boat was hauled up on the bank and a shed built over it and I left it there. We called this boat the Navajo. Exhibit 409 is a picture of that boat after the paddle wheel was installed. William L. Marrs testified on cross examination as follows: 2468 I marked by piles of rocks the places where there were ob-structions to navigation in the river, unless there was some natural object or condition that would designate such a place. I did that because if I knew when I was approaching a bad place it would enable me to steer by it with greater case than if I didn't 2469 know it was there. I did not do any marking on the upper stretches of the river and didn't do any marking when I took Mr. Loper because I knew that part of the river was out of my territory and 2470 that I wasn't going up there any more. It was not expected that I would cover any territory above Warm Creek. I had no chance to observe any changes in the river bed or the bars above Warm Creek because I only made that one trip. The changing conditions that I have referred to in my testimony are all below the Utah- Arizona line. I had learned from boating experience the desirability of 2472 marking a channel. Throughout the entire course of my oporations there I endeavored to fix in my mind the places where I had en-countered difficulties in navigation because I expected that the difficulty I found there would still be there on succeeding trips. There was no purpose in my marking a bar or its position or in marking the channel for my boat unless I expected that condition to be present on my next trip, and regardless of my present view |