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Show Record it back down again. It was really an oil drill, but we used it for drilling to bed rock, intending to put the dredge in there, 3211 and sampling the gravel. When I brought that Keystone drill downstream it was November or December, and we brought it down on a raft and in our boat. I suppose it weighed three or four tons. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master, Frank Bennett testified: When we took the keystone drill upstream I did so in a boat, with the assistance of Bert Loper and W. B. Hay. We dis-manteled the drill outfit and took it up in three trips as far as Olympia Bar and made two trips from there on up to the Good Hope Bar. We went up the river with a sail and had the big boat, and it was while the river was rising quite rapidly and after it was eight feet anyway above low water mark. We put up a big canvas and used it for a sail; sometimes we would lay around for a day or two, and when the wind came we would go. I think our actual traveling time in making that upstream trip was only about a day and a half. Resuming his direct examination Frank Bennett testified as follows: 3212 I have no data from which I can tell you exactly the entire length of time that elapsed between our departure and our arrival at our destination in taking this keystone drill upstream, but I would say that it would be four or five days. While I was in that country I did some copper mining at a point up White Canyon known as Copper Bend and located about nine miles from Hite. I hauled the ore from the mine to the Colorado River with four mule teams and carried the ore, which was sacked, across the river 3213 in my tunnel boat that I have referred to, when it was hauled Overland up to Green River, Utah. 3214 I recall going in there to drill for oil in July, 1920. I built a raft at Hall's Crossing. I think the raft was fourteen feet or more wide and in three fourteen- foot sections. which would |