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Show the other inland camp about 77 8 miles away . It would have been necessary for me to make special arrangements with the Moab Garage people had I desired to have them deliver supplies by boat to Lockhart . ( R . 2850-3 , Vol . 16 . ) L . L . ( Taylor TaVlor ) testified : I publish a newspaper at Moab and my father started the first ferry boat on the Colorado River at that point . As a boy , I have gone swimming in the river and have been in row boats during all ( seasons seasonG ) of the year . The channel of the river occasionally changes a little bit at Moab . I recall such changes at the mouth of Court House and Mill Creek , where sand bars and drift wood will obstruct the river at times , almost putting a small dam across it . ( R . 2855-7 , Vol . 16 . ) Sometimes the ( liver river ) is 10 or 15 feet deep for quite a distance across and at other times during the dry season it is not so deep . When I was a boy I have waded the river and have seen cattle driven across , but I ( don't dont ) think I ever saw cattle taken across when it was not necessary to swim them . I have been two or three miles downstream in row boats and have noticed no change in channel over that stretch . I have taken boat trips on picnics up and down the river and went down the river in December , 1925 , and also in April of the previous year to Well No . 1 . We encountered no sand bars on the April trip , but on the December trip we were heavily loaded and stuck on a sand bar about noon . We proceeded to eat our dinner and before we had finished the barge drifted off the bar . ( R . 2858-61 , Vol . 16 . ) While drilling operations at the oil wells were in progress , I was many times in sight of the Colorado River , where I could see the Moab Garage barge , and I never ( saw 3aw ) it stuck on sand bars . I ( don't dont ) know of any occasion when the merchants of Moab brought in any merchandise or ( supplies 3upplies ) on the river and ( don't dont ) know of any fruit or ( agri agri- agri ) ¬ ( cultural -lultural lultural ) products being shipped that way . ( R . ( 2862-3p 28623p ) Vol . 16 . ) ( I 1 ) know of lumber being rafted down the river ( and ind ) of oil being transported up the river on boats . I have knowledge of several barrels of oil being thus transported ind later taken to Lasal for use in dipping cattle . As a 3oy around the river I have seen several rafts of lumber ( ome --ome ome ) down to Moab from Castle Valley , 25 miles above . ( R . 2864-5 , Vol . 16 . ) This lumber was rafted from a point m the Colorado River above Castle Creek down to Moab . [ t is difficult for me to ( describe describe- describe ) the rafts which I saw ( some ome ) 25 years ago , but I would say that a raft would be |