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Show Record Carl S. Swanholm testified for complainant on direct ex-amination as follows: 2828 I am U. S. Cadastral Engineer in the employ of the General Land Office at Salt Lake City and have had practical experience 2829 in that line since 1913 in Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Florida. During a part of 1926, 1927 and 1928 I was on the Colorado River. In 1926 I went from Moab down to No. 2 Well, a distance of approximately thirty miles, and was on that stretch of river from about September 1 until the early part of December of that year in charge of the party then doing meandering work. One of our camps was just on the outskirts of Moab and another one was located 2830 about twenty- eight miles downstream at No. 2 Well. We of course got our supplies for our Moab camp right there at town, but most of our supplies were brought down to our lower camp on a barge, although some of them were brought down with a little boat. During this period they were operating at full capacity at the oil camps and I would know when the barge was expected to start down, and if I could anticipate my needs I would send an order for provisions. At times when the barge didn't come below Well No. 1, we would have to take our pack outfit and go up to No. 1 Well and get the supplies that were brought down there on the barge and bring them to our camp at No. 2 Well; or we would go up with the small boat and bring them down. I think the only trip I made on the Moab barge in 1926 was about December 1, when I 2831 came out. We had frequent delays on that trip, occasioned by striking a sand bar. It took us the entire day to travel the 2832 twenty miles from No. 1 Well up to the Moab dock. The usual method, the only method, employed on this particular trip was to back off or pole the barge off by pushing against the sand bar and back-ing until we struck deeper water, find a new channel and try it again. We had a boat with our party in 1926, which I operated almost entirely myself. We used it to transport us up and down the |