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Show Record of the river. There was a road over which trucks and automobiles traveled overland to Indian Creek and beyond that point. My Lockhart camp was about twenty miles from the Indian Creek camp 2852 and about eight miles from another inland camp. When I was camped at No. 1 Well and also at No. 2 Well, I would always be adviced when the Moab Garage boats would leave, and during that time we got a majority of our supplies by boat. When we had our camp at Lockhart, we obtained one or two small consignments of supplies from No. 2 Well, which had been delivered there by the big barge, by taking them from No. 2 camp down to Lockhart with my little boat. After the first trip, when I went down to Lockhart and took supplies on the big barge, it would have been necessary for me to make special arrangements with the Moab Garage people had I desired to have them deliver supplies by boat to 2853 Lockhart. At times when we were at Lockhart we obtained supplies from the Indian Creek camp and from theother inland camp which was about eight miles away. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master 2854 the witness testified that it is impossible in a good many places for one to walk down along the banks of the river in making the surveys upon which his party was engaged and that for expediency of the survey it is necessary to have boats to cross from one side of the river to the other and also because of sheer walls and very dense undergrowth. L. L. Taylor testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 2855 I am 38 years old, have lived in Moab all my life, and publish the Times Independent at that place. My grandfather started 2856 the first ferry boat on the river at Moab. I have been down the river to Well No. 1, and as a boy many times went swimming in the Colorado River and have been in row boats, my experience on the river covering all seasons of the year. The channel of the river 380 |
