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Show Record if I had continued on up to Warm Creek. 2480 After we put on the first paddle wheel we got stuck in some sections of the river once or twice a day; sometimes more, sometimes not at all. I have no way of estimating how many times, if at all, I would have been stuck on the trip up Warm 2481 Creek in my boat equipped with the large paddle wheel. When I took Loper up we had a small paddle wheel and the journey consumed approximately six days; that was an average trip. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master, Mr. Marrs testified as follows: 2484 The paddles on the eight- foot wheel did not have any deeper draft than the paddles on the five- foot wheel. On the five- foot wheel the paddles were so close together that there wasn't time for them to fill with water. We only had twelve paddles on the large wheel and sixteen paddles on the small wheel, and by using the large wheel obtained more efficiency from our power. With the propeller in the tunnel as originally con-structed, all of the water would be taken out form under the rear end of the boat and permitted to drop down. Franklin Thomas testified for complainant on direct ex-amination as follows: 2487 I am a civil engineer residing in Pasadena and was in Glen Canyon in 1922, investigating the possibility of obtaining water and power for Pasadena. Our party went to Hall's Crossing, 2488 where Mr. Wimmer met us with four boats. They were sixteen foot skiffs with square ends. Two of them were equipped with Evenrude motors and the others were without motors. The four boats were connected in two pairs, tandem fashion, with a motor in stern of each of the two rear boats. We left Hall's Crossing September 8, 1922, encountering rapids in a number of places, the worst being encountered in the first half day after leaving Hall's Crossing , 2489 where we shipped water. We ran the rapids. We did not wear 329 |