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Show Record men. The machinery carried by the Betsy Ann weighed I imagine twenty- five hundred pounds, which, with the coal and passengers, 2138 constituted its load. The Betsy, Ann also towed our row boats, and I think the Marguerite towed one row boat. My best recollection is that our actual running time on the ninety- five mile trip up the river with this outfit was thirty- six and a half hours. I 2139 regarded our trip up the river as uneventful. There were ten or twelve men, including Mr. Wimmer, in the outfit. I don't remember 2140 whom Mr. Wimmer had with him, although he always carried a man or two with him, and as I remember it his son was on the trip last referred to. The picture at the left on page 71 of Exhibit 11 C shows that there were twelve of us in the government party, but Mr. Richardson who appears in the picture was not on the out- going 2141 trip. Our cook was a woman. She took the journey down and up the river with us. The first trip taken by be in point of time was the surveying trip in the middle of July, 1914, which occupied approximately one month. We started from Wimmer's ranch and went 2142 down to the junction and back up the Green River. We had the Betsy Ann, which at that time was not equipped with any power. We shoved it with two motor boats and by hand. The water was higher in July, 1914, than it was in August, September and October. Mr. Wimmer was not on that trip. I had never been down the river before 2143 that occasion and Captain Yokey, assisted by Joe Ross, went with me. We left Wimmer's ranch right close to July 15 and the expedition consumed about one month. It took us four or five days to make the trip back upstream on the return journey and I made no 2144 other trips while on that survey. We took with us sufficient sup-plies to last the entire time. In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master Kenneth Sawyer testified as follows: Before making these motor boat trips from the junction to Moab during the progress of our drilling operations, neither I 278 |