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Show Record sand probably having shifted under it and the action of the wheel producing this shift of sand. I imagine it was about 3: 30 P. M. when we arrived at the well. I walked back up to Moab because I was with the mining editor of the Salt Lake Tribune and he was anxious to get back that night to file a report, so we had to walk back because the big barge was not going back and we had no other boat. We got a small motor boat to take us up for about a mile, where the trail hits the river, and then we followed a trail which cuts off five or six miles of the distance by river. 2862 My place of business in Moab is about two miles from the mouth of Mill Creek. While they were drilling the oil wells I was many times in sight of the Colorado River and could see the Moab Garage barge; during that time I never saw it stuck on sand bars. Occasionally I have seen it coming up the river or going down. The road runs right by the dock, and from the bridge or dock at Moab you can see the river for three quarters of a mile below the dock. As a 2863 small boy I saw a boat called the Undine. That boat was wrecked above Moab. I don't know of the river ever being used for bringing merchandise and supplies to the merchants of Moab and don't know of any fruit or agricultural products being shipped out on that river. 2864 In response to a question propounded by the Special Master, Mr. Taylor testified that oil was brought up the river and that he knew of lumber being rafted down the river. Continuing his direct examination Mr. Taylor testified: I know of oil being brought up the river soon after the well came in; it was taken to Lasal for use in dipping cattle. I don't know how many barrels there were of such oil, but there were several. The lumber I spoke of as Having been rafted came down 2865 to Moab from Castle Valley, twenty miles above. As a boy around the river I have seen several rafts of lumber come down the river. They had a saw mill on the Lasal mountains, some ten or fifteen miles from Castle Valley. There are no commercial mills up there |