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Show Record 2894 I have hunted in that country. I would say that the population of Moab Valley now is twelve hundred. John B. Cleary testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 2895 I live in Wyoming, am a civil engineer, and for eleven years have been with the Midwest Refining Company, and before entering that employment was for two years with the standard Oil Company, which now owns the Midwest. I was quite familiar with the operations of the Midwest Company in and about the Colorado River between Moab and Lockhart Canyon, in which operations the Midwest spent approximately two million dollars over a period of 2896 two and a half years. The Midwest now has no present interest in drilling operations down there. I first went to the Colorado River on December 31, 1925, going to Shafer Well No. 1 to make a report on transportation facilities and check the location of the well and the United States oil and gas permits on which it was 2998 located. On December 8 there had been a flow of oil at that well and I went from Moab to the well on the Moab Garage barge, which was in charge of Virgil Baldwin, leaving Moab after noon on December 31. About half way down we were stuck on a sand bar for 2899 almost two hours, taking a line to shore and pulling the boat from the sand bar by use of a winch that was on the barge. Darkness overtook us when we were about a mile from the well, where we tied up and walked to the well, arriving there about eight o'clock. I remained there about seventeen days, investigating the staking of the permits, which had been monumented preceding the drilling, and also investigating a road to the pipe line out of the Shafer well. Thinking we had an oil field there it would be necessary to transport the oil by way of a pipe line out of 2901- 2902 that territory. I looked into the question of a road with the 2903 idea of transporting material into a producing oil field. I then knew that the river had been used in bringing down casing tools 387 |
