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Show ( Well Ivell ) , and ( lie he ) ( lias has ) taken 1360 two or three trips on the smaller boats of the Moab Garage Company . He ( doesn't doesnt ) know what it was commonly called , but ( lie he ) believes they referred to it as the Speed Boat ; - but ( he lie ) ( doesn't doesnt ) know whether it had a name or not . On the trips that ( he lie ) has taken on the barge , ( he be ) ( doesn't doesnt ) recall any obstacles or difficulties that were encountered ; ( wasn't wasnt ) hung up on a sand bar at any time ( on oil ) ( these 'these these ) trips . JR . 5284-5285 . ) On the trips that he took on the smaller boats , he recalls no difficulties or obstructions to ( naviga naviga- naviga ) ¬ tion and ( wasn't wasnt ) hung up at a sand bar at any time . The first ( time thne ) he was down on the large boat was . shortly after No . 1 Well blew in , was perhaps two or three weeks afterwards , and the other trips were in the next succeeding months . Prior to those trips he has spoken of , he had taken trips on the Colorado River in a motor boat back in 19102 1911 , or 1912 ; he ( doesn't doesnt ) recall the year . It . waS in a boat built by Merkins , and it was called the Merkins Boat . It ( had bad ) a name but he has ( for- for ) gotten what it was . It looked more like a box than it did a boat , was fifteen or eighteen feet long and . six or eight feet wide , and he believes there were twelver or fifteen of them on the boat . ( R . 5286 . ) He ( doesn't doesnt ) know what horsepower engine propelled the boat . The trips were just picnic and fishing trips , and they would go down the river probably six or seven miles and back up to Moab , and ( didn't didnt ) encounter any difficulty with respect to sand bars or other obstacles or obstructions in the river and he , |