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Show Record on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers with certain types of 2598 engines. I have heard that on those rivers, even where boats are equipped with paddle wheels, they encounter engine difficulties. I call a rapid a broken stretch of water existing as a result of rocks or the speed of the river or a very sudden, steep declivity. Herman W. Freeze testified for complainants on direct ex- Amination as follows: 2599 I am a deputy sheriff, residing in Los Angeles, and was formerly employed by the American Placer Corporation of Chicago, 2600 which operated at Lee's Ferry in 1911, when I was there assisting in the installation of their machinery, which had been brought overland to that point. The company had a boat called the Charles 2601 H. Spencer that was built in San Francisco and freighted to Lee's Ferry. Exhibit 415 is a photograph of the machinery at Lee's Ferry. the Charles H. Spencer was around eighty or one hundred 2602 feet long. Photograph 296 of Exhibit 11 D appears to be that boat after it was tied up on the bar. Exhibit 416 is a picture of that boat. I was at Lee's Ferry twice for an aggregate period of three months. This boat had a paddle wheel and was a steamboat. 2603 designed to bring coal down to Lee's Ferry for operating the machinery there from a coal mine that I understood was located about thirty miles up the river near Warm Creek. I recall three trips of the Charles H. Spencer. On the first trip it had three or four tons of coal on the front of the deck; on the second trip it had a little more; and on the third trip it had fifteen or twenty tons of coal used for firing the boilers at Lee's Ferry. 2604 We also used driftwood for fuel. We had what they called a pneu-matic dredge and were going to pump sand from the bottom of the river and also wash dirt down from the side of the hill through the sluice boxes, using the pumps for that purpose. It was a mining proposition, designed to extract gold out of the silt and sand of the river. The dredge was located on the bank. We didn't take |