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Show Record engines. One of the launches was intended for use in bringing down the barge loaded with coal, but they couldn't make the trip up with that boat and I recall their using it for pleasure one or twice. The other launch was used for gathering wood on the river, etc. I think it was about the first of September, 1911, about the time I went up to Paria, that I left there. I stayed in there until Christmas. When I left the machinery was not in 2606 operation and the Charles H. Spencer was tied up on a sand bar at the ferry. I don't know whether that boat was operated after I left. From Lee's Ferry I went by wagon to Paria, Utah, located about forty miles from Tropic. Our supplies at Lee's Ferry were brought overland from Flagstaff, Arizona, and none came up or down 2607 the river by boat. While at Lee's Ferry I saw the row boat of the Kolb brothers, who stayed at our camp three or four days, but saw no other boats beside ours going up or down the river. The same company was operating for gold at Paria, but they closed down 2610 when I left there about December 12, 1911. On one occasion while I was at Lee's Ferry they claimed that there was a flood which 2611 cause the river to rise twenty- six feet in twelve hours. It would hardly be fair for me to judge how much of a raise there was, although I know it raised an awful lot. Exhibit 417 is a 2612 photograph of wagons waiting to go over on the ferry. While I was there Mr. Johnson ran the ferry. Herman W. Freeze testified on cross examination as follows: 2613 The Charles H. Spencer had been assembled and launched maybe a week or two before I saw it. I never went up to Warm Creek. The Charles H. Spencer was probably something like sixteen feet wide. I brought down the fifteen or twenty ton load of coal on the Charles H. Spencer about a month before I left Lee's Ferry, 2615 at which time Mr. Charles H. Spencer was still there. He was one of the promoters of the American Placer Corporation. ( Mr. Randolph S. Collins states that Charles H. Spencer's present address is Los Angeles) During my three months there I wouldn't say whether |
