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Show Record in a little eddy where we put it together in the latter part of February, 1912. The boat burned coal for fuel and they procured their coal at a point about twelve or fourteen miles up from the 3014 mouth of Warm Creek, hauling it down to the river with bull teams and horses. The blueprint referred to by the witness was marked Exhibit 470 and admitted in evidence. Jeremiah Johnson testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3015 My home is at Lee's Ferry, but I have had my family in Utah for probably ten years. I was taken to Lee's Ferry when I was only a few days old and that has been my home practically ever 3016 since. I was born in 1876. My father ran the ferry for twenty- two years; we then moved away, and in 1910 I went back and have since lived there practically all the time. From the time I was old enough I assisted him with the ferry boat, with we took wagons across. It was about forty by fourteen or eighteen feet. 3017 We also had row boats for use around there. I have been up the river from Lee's Ferry to Bull Frog Creek, located a mile above Hall's Crossing. On that trip we took three fourteen- foot boats and one eighteen- foot boat, the largest of which was supposed to be a motor boat. These boats were owned by Robert B. Stanton and there were fifteen men in our upstream party. We only carried our bedding and supplies for our party. We required fifteen men in 3018 handing the boats and pulling them up the river. The upstream trip, which was about one hundred and thirty- five miles, consumed twenty- one days. Between riffles we were able to row the boats at short intervals. Of course there were always sand bars and rocks projecting out of the riffles. After we delivered the boats we obtained two old homemade row boats and came back down the river. The larger of these was eighteen feet long and the smaller one 403 1521 |