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Show Record days after the truck left. I would say that the powder left on the. 1196 passenger boat the next day after the truck returned from Grand Junction to Moab. We had no serious trouble with the ice with the passenger boat. It took us about four days to clear the channel of the ice. The ice kept coming in from above, which made it worse, and we tried to shoot it out below. When I spoke of consulting my boss I was referring to Mr. R. C. Clark, who testified as a witness in this case. He was on the job during all of these operations. He was at Moab all the time. He has an interest in the company and he kept in pretty close touch with all my operations. During the year 1927 I would judge I made around forty round trips. In 1928 around thirty round trips. They probably 1199 were not all with the large boat. Probably five of those trips in 1928 were with the small boats. I made an accurate check of the amount of tonnage that was hauled by the big boat from the time it started to operate in 1200 1925 until its last trip this year. It would average ten or eleven tons a trip going down, and coming back it would average about the same. 1202 While I was testifying as to the difficulties that I had encountered and the places where I encountered then I was looking at sheets 18 and 19 of complainant's Exhibit 10. I located the various points where I had trouble from those maps. The points of difficulty were and are sufficiently stable for me to find where they are on the maps. 1203 When running regularly on the river I did not keep my men watching so much. If I had thought there was any real necessity for the men to be there making soundings or keeping a look- out on the boat as it progressed, I would have had them there. 1207 There was no other time during the entire period that I was navigating the river with the big boat that I was stuck longer than a day and a half. The next longest time we were stuck on a - 161- |