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Show 1281 His mother made a visit to Moab and was ( living- living ) there before the boats started operating . . His brother , , . Virgil Baldwin , was his ( mother's mothers ) baby son in whom she took considerable pride . ( R . 5022 . ) Because of her interest in her son she kept a diary of the * trips Virgil made and lie , Clarence , saw his mother three ( or- or ) four times a week , and the diary , which she kept , , and . lie kept a check of the trips of the boats as she put them in her diary . This diary of his ( mother's mothers ) became more or less as a document that was used by the Moab Garage Company , being used several times to check up on dates and to his knowledge , the notations in that diary as to the trips of the big boat , are correct ( R . . 5023-5024 . ) The diary was kept by his mother in her own ( band-- band ) writing , and it was taken by Mr . Perry Clark to Denver as a reference for dates . The diary correctly reflects his own knowledge of the trips of the big boat during the period it covers . His mother later went back to her home in Indianapolis , Indiana , in June , , 1927 , and there have been about forty trips made by the big boat since she left . ( R . 5024 . ) Up to the time she quit keeping her diary there had been approximately two hundred trips made by the big boat . . The big boat made seven recent round trips , in November , 1929 ] , four of them being to Lockhart and three to Shafer No . . ( 1-A 1A ) well . He recalls an occasion when the barge was caught in an ice jam , , this being the only time its operations were ever stopped because of ice . . |