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Show Record 3184 the side wheel; one side outrun the other. In 1905 or 1906 I had a propeller motor boat, which I bought from Mr. Yokey at Green River, took overland to the mouth of North Wash, and there launched it in the river. I used that boat to run up and down the river. There is fairly good trail from Hite to Good Hope and I had pack animals. Sometimes I would pack supplies down and 3185 I was able to run this boat from Olympia Bar up as far as Good Hope bar, where I would load my supplied, sometimes getting them at Good Hope Bar. At other times I went as far as Hite by towing my boat. I couldn't get this boat up to Hite over the rapids without a lot of help, and it was too hard work and too expensive to line the boat. This boat was twenty- two feet long and about four feet or more wide, with a draft of six or eight inches in addition to my propeller, which was fourteen or sixteen inches; the propeller would strike on the rocks. It had a Northwestern 3186 motor of twelve horsepower. The boat sunk at Tickaboo and I left it there, I guess during the high water, and took the engine out. When the water went down the boat dirod out and cracks opened in it, and when the river came up again the boat filled and slid off into about fifteen feet of water and I was not able to raise it. I built a motor boat in Green River next season. It was about the year 1906 and it was built with a tunnel, designed to keep my propeller 3187 from the rocks. This boat was twenty- four feet long and at the stern had a draft of about sixteen inches. I used the same engine in that boat and took it via Hanksville to the mouth of 3188 North Wash. This boat did not do very well, having too much back draw and suction and would sort of sit down in the water. I took the engins out of that boat and used the boat as a sail boat, and to a certain extent used cars on it. I left the boat there and guess it is on the river yet. Whenever we had wind we would use it as a sail boat to go up the river. I have sailed over rapids 3189 going upstream and found four feet above low water mark to be a |