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Show 1025 Ferry in one of the boats, they intended to come back with a boat, but not in a boat. In coming back they would be in the boat ten percent of the time. " Q All right, we will maintain your per cent. You went down the river on that trip and you came up just as planned? " A Yes sir." The supplies used by Mr. Seaboldt during the time he did the drilling to test the bars in 1915, came into Hite by wagon from Hanksville. the place where the drilling was done was about seventeen miles from Hite. The supplies were gotten down from Hite by Mr. Seaboldt, Lon Turner and himself, and pack horses were used for that purpose, on the west side of the river. R. 2439. He made several trips for Seaboldt. This was chiefly his work. " Q And then they had how many boats of their own? " A They didn't have any boats; I believe they got the big boat of Lon Turner; they didn't have nay boats of their own; they made a big scow and floated it down; just a big scow; drawed probably three inches of water." R. 2439- 2440. He was paid so much a day for hauling supplies on the river Frank Bennett, who was on the Olympia Bar in 1910, 1911 and 1912, sometimes went down there and back on horseback. Sometimes Frank Bennett and his nephew would go down and back in a boat and would carry supplies required for working on the river for himself, but not for others. R. 2440. Frank Bennett was not engaged in carrying supplies for other people for compensation, but simply did it for his own requirements. Turner did not use his boat in the service of others and witness never heard of boating being done by anyone except for |
