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Show if." - ' 'i ' : ' - ' v :"? .'--. . - - . -v- o i .. i i - ... s ' . I r ' j 4 An Old-Timer ... In response to an arSde in The Times last week concerning the construction construc-tion of a paddle wheel boat by Tex McClatchey for use on the Colorado River this summer for tours, correspondent Barbara Ekker from Hanlcsville this week supplied the Times with photos of the large paddle wheel operated on the river in 1925. The boat was constructed by Virgil Baldwin and his brother Clarence Baldwin to haul freight 18 miles downstream from Moab for the John L. Shafer drilling operations. The boat cost $7,000 and measured 75 feet in length and 16 feet in width. It had a depth of 3 feet with a 40 horsepower automobile engine and an eight foot paddle wheel. It had a draft of four inches when empty and 12 inches when loaded with 12 tons of freight. During the first two years of operation it hauled 167 loads of freight for a total of some 3,500 tons. |