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Show 80 river . ( R . 2954-5 , Vol . 16 . ) In making my estimate of comparative costs of land and river transportation I assumed the cost of the Moab Garage boat to be 12,000.00 ; however , that is a guess . If Mr . Clark , ( who ivho ) owned the barge , has testified that it cost 7,000.00 , my answer as to the ( comparative coniparative ) costs of truck and boat should be changed . In such event , my estimate of the cost of the two would be about the same . A truck of the type we used cost 6,685.00 . ( R . 2956 , Vol . 16 . ) Walter F . ( Edwards Edivards ) testified : I am a civil engineer employed by the Midwest Refining Company , and on my first river trip accompanied Mr . Cleary from Moab to Well No . 1 on the barge of Moab Garage Company . I surveyed the boundaries of the permits and used a motor boat called the Riff Climber to take us to our work up and down the river . We had trouble with sand bars . On January 25th I took a trip on the big barge and we had some trouble * at the mouth of Bull Canyon , where we had to cross to the I other side of the river because of a cross channel . I made I another trip on that barge on March 25th , but recall no trouble . ( R . 2960-4 , Vol . 16 . ) While I was in that section I was on the river practically every day ; Nve ( didn't didnt ) have trouble every trip , but almost every trip , especially in ( cross- cross ) ' ing the river and on trips to Moab on the larger boats . Our 4 only trouble was running on sand bars . We ( didn't didnt ) always find ( the -the the ) channel in the same place , but it was easier to find in extreme low water because the bars were then up , more or less exposed . At extreme high water our greatest trouble was in following what we knew to be the best ( chan- chan ) \ nel in crossing from one side to the other . ( "In In "'In In ) traveling \ up and down the river as many times as we did , we of course \ got to know places where the water was the deeper , , and f at extreme high water there was enough back eddies along j the banks to aid considerably in going upstream rather than \ trying ( out oat ) in the main channel . " But ( occasionally occasimially ) , , in going up along the bank , we would run into where we knew there \ were submerged rocks because we had seen ( them -them them ) at low f water and we would then cross the river and try another channel on the other side and might get into trouble with sand bars in the middle of the stream . ( R . 2971-3 , , Vol . . 16 . ) I ( don't dont ) know whether I would have had any trouble if I had followed the same course in high water that I followed in low water . When taking advantage ( -of of ) the eddies along |