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Show Record followed the geology and everything clear up to mile- post 34. The points I have given are all the points at which we had trouble. We stopped at mile 34 because we had just enough gasoline go to back down to the confluence of the rivers and up to our lower camp. We did not stop because we could not go any farther. 1357 I was interested in determining the navigability of the river at the mouth of Indian Creek because we had prospective oil acreage on Indian Creek about 10 miles east of the Colorado River and I was in hopes we could find a way to get transportation down the river to that point. We had some claims already in existence on the river 20 miles below but not down on the river at Indian Creek. We had claims about to be drilled on the east side of the river and at that time we were using the large Moab boat to trans-port supplies as far as the first two structures, 26 miles down the river. Our purpose was to see whether we could get landings, or whether there was a place we could get in and build a road from 1358 there on out. 1359 I have been from Indian Creek down to the Colorado River, but not up Indian Creek. I made that trip simply as a means of getting transportation. We had this same motor boat of the Moab Garage meet us at that point and had a man waiting for us at Indian Creek to carry us out; that is we engaged transportation back up the river. My experience on the San Juan River was mainly along the banks of the river itself doing geology at various times from 1921 to 1926, and from Farmington, New Mexico, to a point 20 or 25 miles east of the confluence. During the time I wan in there I did not see any boats on the San Juan River. 1361 My company drilled a well in the vicinity of Elk Ridge in San Juan County, Utah. Elk Ridge is about 20 miles from the Colorado River. Elk Ridge is about 130 miles from the Town of Moab. The tools and supplies for drilling that well were taken in by truck to Blanding, about 90 miles from Moab, and by wagon from Blanding |
