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Show Record remember it. Shafer No. 2 well is about 9 miles farther down. 5028 I have figured the cost hauling 15 tons from Thompson to our dock at Moab by trucks and the cost of hauling that same load from the dock down to Shafer well No. 2. It is 33 miles from Thompson to the dock and it is practically 29 miles from the dock to the No. 2 well. It would take three five- ton trucks to move the 5029 15 tons. The truck cost would be $ 49.06. The 15 tons would be one 5030 load on the barge. The barge cost would be $ 43.50. I did not include the board of the men on the barge. They got their board free. They cooked their own meals on the barge. I don't think the board of the men on the barge cost more than a 5031 dollar a day apiece. So that would bring the two items of cost substantially the same. We invested in the three trucks $ 15,000.00, or $ 5000.00 apiece for the trucks. Our investment in the water outfit was about $ 6000.00, and that included a change of engine. The first cost of the barge was about $ 3000.00. We later changed the power plant, after about 150 trips, at an expense of about $ 3000.00. So even counting the replacing of that original power plant in the barge, there was a difference of about $ 9000.00 between the invested capi- 5032 tal. There would be a good deal of difference in the depreciation of the land outfit and the water outfit. One of the trucks would depreciate about twenty percent a year. The barge would not depreciate ten percent a year. The highway from Thompson to the dock was a very good, well- kept- up highway. It is a state road kept up at public expense. 5033 I am familiar with the country down the Colorado River on both sides of the river down to the junction. It is awful rough country. I have deer hunted up the canyon different places along the river and have been out on top. It is very rough. I have seen it from the river all the way down several times. We hauled freight overland to the land camp of one of the oil companies up Indian 5034 Creek. I have been over there myself. I have been clear around to |