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Show 451 " The first trip we got stuck and didn't even have any anchor with us; in case we broke a chain or anything to hold our boat from drifting away from where we wanted it to go, didn't have any steel cable with us; had some inch Manila line, rope line; undertook to take that to shore; it just carried the rope down stream; we had quite a job getting to the bank; I fell in clear up to my neck. We stuck there for about three hours, I guess, before we got off. " R. 1161- 1162 On this trip it was necessary to take lines to shore in order to pull the boat into deeper water. About ten hour's time were consumed in making this trip from Moab to Shafer No. 1 well, which is a distance of between nineteen and twenty miles. After the first trip, he took charge and piloted the big boat. He would estimate that he made probably eighty or ninety trips on the river in 1925 and about the same number in 1926, making a total of between two hundred and fifty and two hundred and sixty trip alls told. In 1929 probably twenty- five or thirty trips were made, the balance being divided between the years 1927 and 1928. Then boating first started in March, 1925, trips were made steadily to the Shafer No. 1 well for probably five months, hauling material. trips were made in the fall of the year now and then. Trips were made the following year during nearly every |