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Show Record plying between its wells and Moab, up and down the river. The Texas Oil Company had one motor boat also. I don't think the 976 other oil companies had any boats. The government and some outboard motor boats plying up and down the river from Moab. Defendant's Exhibit 2 is a picture of the scow before the bow was put on. If I remember correctly that is our first trip. Defendant's Exhibit 4 is a picture of one of our boats. 977 Defendant's Exhibit 3 looks like the Utah Petroleum boat. The Utah Petroleum had a boat similar to the boat shown in Exhibit 3. Exhibit 4 is a picture of the same boat shown in Exhibit 3. Defendant's Exhibits 1, 2, 3, 4 were received in evidence. 979 I have lived in Moab since 1901. R. C. Clark on redirect examination testified as follows: We operated regular passenger service on the river. Our boats left on a schedule at a certain time every day. That was dur-ing the excitement after they struck oil down there. A lot of people came from all over the country and wanted to go down and see 980 the wells, and others were interested in other structure there. That lasted five or six weeks, as long as the excitement kept up. It was in December, 1925, January and a part of February, 1926. We have had a little passenger transportation all the time up until our last shut- down. Our big business was during the oil excitement. We carried passengers in the launches and some of them on the big boats. We had several excursions with the big boat recently. R. C. Clark testified in response to questions propounded by the Special Master as follows: 981 If oil should be discovered farther down the river, say down toward the junction of the Green River, the oil men would get their supplies down there by boat. There is no road across the up-land country there. The road from Moab to Monticello goes through the high country where there are no settlements. The country between 982 the road and the river is a broken- up country. - 136- 1252 |