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Show Record then you put in a new pin and go back into deeper water again. About December 15 I left the river with the two boats, there being four of us on upstream trip, which was taken just after 2845 the ice cakes had started to come down the river. Going upstream we had motor and boat troubles. Our boat troubles were trying to avoid ice cakes, which would be from two to four inches thick in places and our motors would freeze up. The propeller wouldn't force the water up as a cooling medium and we would frequently stop and clean out the motor. I don't think sand bars offered any more trouble then than in the past. We always figure on delays on sand bars, but no damage was done. The pack outfit returned over to one of the parties on the mesa; I think the Mr. Moore's party. Carl S. Swanholm testified on cross examination as follows: 2848 With our inboard motor boat we had a metal projection that fends off obstructions from the propeller, and I suppose is what you would call a skag. It would strike an object before the pro- 2849 peller struck. Our outboard motor had no skag on it, but there was a tilting propeller which required nothing of the kind. The black boat being only used for emergency purposes up and down the river, we did practically all of our work with the outboard motor. I would say that I did not take probably more than three complete trips with the black boat, but I took some fractional trips between the camp and the oil wells with that boat - probably 2850 half a dozen or less of such trips. The government parties working in that region had, among other camps, a camp at Indian Creek. I have never been at that camp personally, but I know that it was 2851 located a number of miles back from the river. When our party crossed the river to join one of the other parties and I went up to Moab and left the river, I do not know whether the party at Indian Creek had finished its work or not. I am not familiar with the Indian Creek camp in 1926, but in 1927 it may have been a sort of distribution point for the other camps working on the east side |