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Show No . 24 is a picture of Shafer 159 No . 1 Well and the machinery , ( equipment equipinent ) , lumber and structures there appearing were taken down the river on our barge . ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit No . 2G shows a part of the barge as it was traveling down the river . The boat appearing on the deck of the barge is a square end canoe in which we at times used an Evinrude motor , ( R . 5017-18 , Vol . 29 . ) After the first trip with the barge my brother Virgil was practically in charge of it . ( R . 5019 , Vol . 29 . ) On those portions of the Colorado River with ( which ivhich ) I am familiar , its channel is always very near the same place except when heavy rains come down a side canyon , at which time the channel will be changed there for a week or ten days and then return to its original ( place place- place ) in a few days the river does its own houseclaning . When there has been a flood down a side canyon we would occasionally be bothered by a sand , bar at that point on the first trip , but after the first trip would have very little difficulty . It was a part of my duty to keep track of the running of the boats and I endeavored to perform that duty . ( R . 5020-1 , Vol . 29 . ) Virgil is my ( mother's mothers ) youngest son and she kept a diary of his boat trips ( , . ) We got in the ( habit habft ) of referring to that diary whenever any question of dates or checking up on trips arose . Up to the time she quit keeping her diary there had been approximately two hundred trips made with the big boat . Last month ( ( Novem Novem- Novem ) ber , 1929 ) we made seven round trips , four between Moab and Lockhart and return , three between Moab and Shafer No . ( I 1 ) . Well and one between Moab and Shafer No . ( 1-A 1A I-A IA ) Well . A conservative estimate of the tonnage hauled up and down the river by our company since it started river navigation in 1925 would be 3500 tons . We have hauled hundreds of passengers on all of the boats . These boat operations were commercially profitable to us . There was only one occasion when I was ever stopped in our operations ; that was when the barge ( was Nvas ) caught in an ice ( jam jarn ) . ( R . 5022-6 , Vol . 29 . ) We first charged 1.75 a ( hundred -hundrn hundrn ) from Thompson ( oil-the-railroad oiltherailroad ) to Shafer No . 1 . Well ; later the charge was 1.00 per hundred , and most of our tonnage delivered there was at the lower rate . Our rate from Thompson to Well No . 2 was 1.25 a hundred . We hauled the freight from Thompson on the railroad to our dock at Moab on ( 5-ton 5ton ) trucks over good road maintained at public expense . The cost to us of our land haul per ton mile was greater than the cost per ton mile of our water |