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Show Record we would ferry across an average of four hundred automobiles a year; also wagons, pack outfits and Navajo Indians. These were all ferried across for compensation and during those years I operated the ferry boat for the county and was paid as salary. 3059 On further recross and redirect examination Mr. Johnson testified that the Navajo ledge of which he speaks is not located at Navajo Creek but at an entirely different place farther upstream, above the mouth of the San Juan. Frank T. Johnson testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3060 I reside at Hurricane, Utah, and my occupation is driving a truck. I was born at Lee's Ferry in 1878 and lived there until 3061 1896; returned to Lee's Ferry in July, 1910, and thereafter was at Lee's Ferry on and off until 1923, during which last mentioned period I have from time gone to Lee's Ferry and operated the ferry for a few months. Prior to 1896 I assisted my father in operating the ferry as far back as I can remember. Being so young I don't remember much about the water conditions. In those days we operated the ferry with a long sweep on each side and usually one at the rear to steer the boat. Usually my job was to take hold of a rope and tow the boat upstream, while father stayed on the boat and held it out from the shore around rocks and sand bars wherever necessary. When we got the ferry boat up the river and ready to start across, I would get in the boat with father and assist in handling one of 3062 the sweeps. There was no cable installed or used prior to 1896, but Mr. Emmett, who then succeeded us in operating the ferry, had 3063 the cable installed. I never saw the steamboat Charles H. Spencer in operation, but remember seeing it just after it had landed about a quarter of a mile below the cable of our ferry; when I saw it they still had steam up and it landed two or three hundred yards up the river from where the company had its machinery. The only cargo that I recall being carried by the steamboat was a few wagons 3064 and some machinery. I didn't see any coal. The boat was tied up |