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Show 100 Record on the Green River, and I also recall the boat trip he made to Moab. On some of Mr. Blake's boat excursions there have been twenty- five or thirty people on his boat at the same time; it was so crowded that nothing but heads were sticking out. The occasion I have just referred to was a short trip he made up the river; there were several small children on board and we went up about two miles to Goose Island. I recall making a trip in the latter part of October or first of November, 1909, from Green River to Moab and return in the boat called the Paddy Ross with the Hughes party. 5239 In 1910 I made a trip from the town of Green River to Townsite Bottom in a row boat for the purpose of taking supplies down through where I was then stopping while taking a trip over through Elaterite Basin there are large deposits of oil sand and the oil practically oozes out of the ground in places. There are sands there one hundred feet straight up and down and I don't know how much deeper they go. For distances of eighty to one hundred feet the oil comes out of the side of the hill in 5240 places; that section extends over a number of miles, and there are sand and sand rocks there most like any other place except where this oil sand crops out. That section is accessible from Hanks-ville, also from the town of Green River, and we first went in there from Hanksville. Later when we came into look the country over, we reached it in the manner I have described. There are some well- marked domes there, but there has not been any drilling 5241 there for oil that I know of. There are oil shales in there which crop out at several points. I have never made or seen made a test as to the oil content of those shales and I do not think their ex-tent has been explored. On one trip when I went down to Townsite Bottom in a row boat, I came back with Ross Wheeler in his boat. 5245 I made an upstream trip from Townsite Bottom with a man named Ed Prothero. I also took a trip with Mr. Wolverton in his boat the |
