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Show 1274 wide , approximately ; with a draft ( -around around ) twenty to ( twenty-two twentytwo ) inches . This boat was used for ( hauling hauling' hauling ) passengers and light freight . ( ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit No . 21 , marked by reporter and identified by him as being a picture of the Punkht Seed boat . ( R . 4998-4999 . ) This boat was put in operation in the spring of 1925 . ) The boat was operated with a model ( "T" T ) Ford motor taken from an old Ford car , the motor when new being about a ( twenty-two twentytwo ) horsepower engine . The boat carried from one to ten persons , together with light freight such as groceries , fishing tools , etc . He ( personally persor-lally persorlally ) operated the boat between Moab and the Shafer No . 1 well ; he alscpwent to Lockhart with it on a few trips , the period of his operations ( being "being being ) three or four months . It took him about four hours to go from Moab to Lockhart , and about seven or eight hours to make the return ( journey journqy ) , the speed depending in some degree on the load carried . ( R . 5000-5001 . ) Loads would be carried both ways if there were loads to go , consisting of passengers principally on the way back , or up the stream , but he does not recall what he actually did take back up the river . He did , however , , take tools that needed repairing and quite a bit of various kinds of freight from oil wells while drilling was going on . ( R . 5002 . ) Anything that was light and that it was necessary to get out in a hurry , , if the big boat ( wasn't wasnt ) available , he would take on this boat , but the principal use of the boat was for passenger service . |