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Show 47 -- 44-- few days, but no regular schedule. " They had a certain amount of equipment to take down, and soon as they got back from one trip they would load up and start on another." R. 114. During two years time he could not say how many times a week the Moab Garage boats went up and down the river.. Some weeks they would not go at all. At other times, possibly make a couple of trips in a week when they were running one boat. They ran two boats for a while. R. 114. He is unable to say whether were hundreds of trips made in carrying passengers and merchandise up and down the river from Moab, but as a matter of opinion he supposes there might have been more than 100 trips made. The freight carried was oil well equipment for drilling oil wells, and supplies. He supposes the Moab Garage Company were paid for their services. He has not himself seen the boats of the Moab Garage Company stuck in the mud at the landing there at Moab, " but I have heard of plenty of cases." R. 115. He did not see it during those two years, but he did not hang around the wharf there either, although he saw the wharf many times, and they might have been stuck there so far as he know. There was always a boat tied up there. As he has gone by there he has heard the engines running, but what they were running for he did not know, but he has been told by Virgil Baldwin that they ran the engines to prevent the sand from filling in and preventing the boats from getting cut and away from the landing. R. 116. He has not any figures on population of Greenriver, Utah, but he would say it was a town of 800 to 1000 people. He has no knowledge of the acreage under cultivation at Greenriver. |