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Show The company also operates 259 a scow upon the ( Colo Colo- Colo ) ¬ ( rado xado ) River , upon which is written Moab Garage . This scow was built in February , 1925 , it is ( seventy- seventy seveilty ) five feet long , fifteen feet wide , three feet deep from gunnel to ( bottom bottoll'i bottolli ) ( , 2 ) tliD sides being ( constructed constructe ) of ( four-inch fourinch four-hich fourhich ) plank and the bottom of two layers of ( two-inch twoinch ) ( plank planlc ) . It has a pointed bow and is ( pro- pro ) pelled by stern wheel , driven by ( automobile antomobile ) motor at first , and later an industrial motor . ( R . 961 . ) The boat was constructed for the purpose of ( fill- fill ) ing a contract between the Moab Garage ( Company Compauy ) and the Midwest Exploration Company , an ( oper oper- oper ) ¬ ating company drilling for oil on the Colorado River about twenty miles below ( Moab Aloab ) . The first contract between the two companies was a written document but was destroyed when the work was finished . With a capacity load the scow drew about twenty inches of water , the capacity of the scow ( being- being ) fifteen ( tons tolls ) ; light it drew about four inches of water . ( R . 961-962 . ) The first contract called for a rate of 1.75 per hundred for ( material inaterial ) transferred , on a basis of four hundred tons , the material to be transferred from Thompson to Kane Creek No . ( 1 I ) well . The usual rate per hundred pounds between Thompson and Moab is fifty cents , the distance being ( thirty- thirty ) seven miles by truck . The distance to the Kane Creek No . ( 1 I ) well from Moab being twenty miles , the rate per hundred pounds ( by by- by ) boat is , therefore , 1.25 . ( R . 962-963 . ) |