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Show 82 a place to come through . We practically always found a place where we could get a boat through , but it was very * u limited and the water was shallow . It was practically 22 \ i miles from the Frank Shafer camp to Moab by river and from the place where we would get off and walk it was eight miles to Moab . The Moab boat landing was a triffle over three miles from the town of Moab . My company still technically retains its interests in those wells and is one of the defendants in the suit commenced by the State of Utah and Texas Oil Company v . Midwest Refining Company , Shafer and others . ( R . 2994-3001 , Vol . 16 . ) On those reefs would run clear across the river at low water , we would get 8 or 10 inches to a foot in depth when they gave us trouble ; a number of times that would be the maximum . There were two or three points between the Moab landing and Kane ( Creek -Creek Creek ) which gave us quite regular trouble in ( 1927 199.7 ) and 1928 ; at times the channel would extend through but at other times it would be very shallow At the times I speak of the Moab Garage Company was not operating ( regu regu- regu ) ¬ larly but when it did operate , its boats came through the places I mention . ( R . 3002-3 , Vol . 16 . ) Herman Rosenfelt testified : I took part in the building of the boat ( known know-n known ) as the C . H . Spencer . Its hull was 80 feet long , it had a ( 12-foot 12foot ) stern wheel with six inches clearance , thus making its length over all 921 4 , feet . It had a ( 25-foot 25foot ) beam and drew 18 to 20 inches of water , empty . After it was constructed in San Francisco it was shipped overland to the mouth of Warm Creek on the Colorado River . It ( "was was was ) a steamboat , the boiler being 8 feet in diameter and 10 feet long . After being assembled at Warm Creek it was there launched in the river and everything was tested out and found all right , the boat being run up and downstream for 100 ( yards vards ) or so in making these tests . Exhibit 469 is a picture of a part of the frame of the boat and Exhibits Nos . 467 and 468 are pictures taken right at the mouth of Warm Creek . It burned coal for fuel , the coal being obtained from a vein 12 or 14 miles up from the mouth of Warm Creek . Its cost was not less than 30,000.00 . ( R . 3006-14 , Vol . 16 . ) Jeremiah Johnson testified : I was born in 1876 , and Lees Ferry has been my home most of the time since then . My father ran the ferry for 22 years and I assisted him , and |