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Show 81 the side , we ( didn't didnt ) as a general thing have difficulty in getting out of them back into deeper water . . ( R . . 2974 , , Vol . . 16 . ) John L . Dugan testified : I am superintendent of Utah Southern Oil Company . In 1924 1 went by motor boat from the mouth of Mill Creek to the present site of the Frank Shafer well . We made the round trip that day , , spending an hour at the well site ; the river was flowing slush ice , which caused us a good deal of trouble , but we had no serious difficulties with sand bars . ( R . 2984-7 , Vol . . 16 . ) illy company was interested in all of the wells that were drilled down the river except one . In December , 1924 , and August , 1925 , 1 made river trips ( in iin ) row boats equipped with an outboard motor and took one trip on the Moab Garage boat when we had great deal of trouble with sand bars . On the last mentioned trip we started late in the forenoon of one day and did not return until the evening of the following day , although we started upstream shortly after breakfast . In January , February and March , 1926 , ( I 1 ) was on the river several times , invariably going down on the barge , which was then hauling considerable material . On most of these trips we had trouble with sand bars ; except on two or three occasions , we would leave the boat a mile or two above camp and walk into Moab because it was quicker . ( R . 2988-90 , Vol . . 16 . ) Between June and October , 1926 , ( I 1 ) made a ( num- num ) ber of boat trips , going down on the ( barge -barge barge ) a few times and at other times on a motor boat . When our operations ( com- com ) menced , we rented a Moab Garage boat and drove it ( our- our ) selves , and between July and the early part of November I made at least three trips a month down to Lockhart , most of the time running my own boat . The channel of the river changed rapidly from trip to trip , and we had to keep a careful watch for it . . The most rapid changes seemed to be ( in' in ) July and August , when we had thunder storms , and it was at that time that we encountered the greatest trouble with bars ; the streams coming in from the side would carry more silt and would change the ( speed speed- speed ) of the current and start a shifting ( -of of ) the bed of the river . ( R . 2991-3 , Vol . 16 . ) From former experience I knew the place where the channel would out shallow the pinch and be all way across and generally tried to go through at the same point where we had gone through before . Notwithstanding this knowledge , I would get out and walk clear across the river to find |