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Show Record 3004 which was drilled by an independent company. We were interested in four of the wells down there upon which actual drilling was done, which wells were Frank Shafer No. 1, J. H. Shafer No. 1, J. L. Shafer No. 1 A, and Hazelwood No. 1, the last named well being drilled at the mouth of Lockhart Canyon. The Snowden- McSweeny well was back from the river more than a mile, while the 3005 other wells I have mentioned were right on the river bank. In 1927 and 1928 conditions were similar to those that I have described. Herman Rosenfelt testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3006 Since 1871 I have been a shipwright and live in San Fran-cisco. I had to do with the building of the boat known as the 3007 C. H. Spencer. That boat was built in San Francisco 1911 and I have a blueprint of it. The hull was eighty feet clearance, making its length over all ninety- two and a half feet. It had a beam of twenty- five feet and drew between eighteen and twenty inches 3008- 3009 empty. After the boat was finished the various sections of it were shipped overland to Lee's Ferry and from there taken by team 3010 to the mouth of Warm Creek. Its cost was not less than thirty dollars. It was a steamboat, the boiler being about eight feet in diameter and ten feet long. We assembled and launched the boat at Warm Creek and two United States inspectors came out to inspect 3011 and help me launch the boat. Everything was tested and found perfect, and the inspectors went home, giving me a few instructions as to details they wished to have attended to. when everything was completed I went home. Before leaving we tried out the engine, 3012 going up and down the river for probably one hundred yards or so. Exhibits 469 is a picture of a part of the frame of the boat while it was under construction on the Colorado River. Ex-hibit No. 467 is a picture taken right at the mouth of Warm Creek, 3013 as is also Exhibit 468. The last time I saw the boat it was lying 402 1520 |