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Show 373 Lookhart the rate per hundred pounds was one dollar. He has a record to two hundred nine trips made by the scow but thinks two hundred forty- five or two hundred fifty trips were made altogether. These trips cover a period from he second of March, 1825, until June, 1929. He made eight trips during the year 1929. He thinks they stopped operating bout the first of June, but doesn't remember exactly the date they quit. R. 964. ( Objection R. Vol. 5 - p. 965.) ( Overruled R. Vol. 5 - p. 965.) It is expected that another well will be drilled and that further freight will be hauled. he has had experience with nearly all kinds of boats, - row boats, motor boats, sail boats; is acquainted with the bed of the Green River between Castle Creek and the junction of the Colorado with the Green. He has been on that stretch of the river in a boat and has had difficulty with sand bars. He has never transported any freight in the scow from Moab to Greenriver, Utah. The scow has never been below Lockhart Canyon on the Colorado River, a distance of forty miles from the Moab dock. He has been stuck on sand bars in the Colorado River a great number of times but has never been held up for any great length of time. The sand bars his opinion are generally found in about the same place in the river and accept occasionally, can be avoided. |