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Show Record nary row boat, equipped with a stock Johnson outboard motor and carrying a load of a thousand pounds, would run fine from Lee's Ferry up to Bull Frog between rapids, but you would have to tow 3042 the boat around the rapids. I am referring to the ordinary swift rapid which you would encounter. There are several places between Lee's Ferry and Bull Frog Rapid where you would have to tow the boat around, but I can't tell you the number, I recall 3043 writing Mr. Burdick a letter last month, in that letter I though I made it clear to him that you would have to tow a boat some of the way. Defendant's Exhibit 12 is in my handwriting, signed by 3045 me, and is the letter I wrote. I only had in mind some little section of the river when I made the following statement in that letter to Mr. Burdick: " I found the largest size outboard motor, two- cylinder, to do very well. The bearing are cased in so the silt doesn't bother them. A homemade row boat that would carry one thousand pounds with a Johnson outboard motor will go up the river in fine shape." Such a boat would go up the river above Lee's Ferry in fine shape for more than a mile, unless you struck a sand bar. In writing that letter I only meant to refer to parts of the river where the water was quiet. ( Defendant's Exhibit I was received in evidence.) There are rapids where a Johnson motor would have 3046 to have help. It would have to have help between Lee's Ferry and the mouth of the San Juan, but I don't know that I could designate the point. There are one or two such points between the mouth of the San Juan and the Utah state line. I went up one little rapid with two Johnson motors and a ton load in the boat, but had to pull the boat up with a winch. I was first subpoenaed as a witness for the government last Sunday. When I wrote this letter to Mr. Burdick, I was not expecting that the state might call me as a witness. 3047 The Johnson outboard motor that I had in mind when I mentioned it in my letter to Mr. Burdick was a ton horsepower motor. |