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Show 22 tion to our freight operations we have had quite a little ( pas- pas ) senger traffic and have taken parties up and down the Colorado to its confluence with the Green . ( R . 971 , Vol . 5 . ) We have run advertisements for sightseers and have invited traffic on our boats from sightseers . Since 1925 we have made from two to three hundred trips with our boats ( carry- carry ) ing passengers only . ( R . 973 , Vol . 5 . ) ( I 1 ) have been there on the job as manager all the time and have kept in touch with the trips and the freight ( earned carried ) . During all of the period in which we have been engaged in freight and ( pas- pas ) senger transportation on the river there has been no serious incident occur in the way of interference with navigation . Our gasoline launches that we have operated in commercial service are : one boat 22 feet long , 6 feet wide , with a screw propeller ; one boat 18 feet long and 8 feet wide ; and another boat 18 feet long and 4 feet wide . We used our boats other than the scow for taking small loads on rush trips . ( R . 974 , Vol . 5 . ) The Midwest Oil Company operated boats on the river , plying up and down between its wells and Moab . The Texas Oil Company had a motor boat . The government has had boats with outboard motors , operating up and down the river from Moab . ( R . 975-6 , Vol . 5 . ) ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit No . 4 is a picture of another of our boats . ( Defendant's Defendants ) ( Ex- Ex ) hibit 3 is similar to a boat of the Utah Petroleum Company . ( R . 976 , Vol . 5 . ) ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit 1 appears to be our pier at Dock No . 1 . ( R . 975 , Vol . 5 . ) We operated our boats , leaving on a schedule at a certain time every day while the oil operations were in progress . A lot of people from all over the country took the trip to see the wells and others were interested in oil structures down there . This was mostly in December , 1925 , and January and February , 1926 , but we have had a little passenger transportation all of the time until our last shutdown . If oil should be ( dis- dis ) covered farther down the river , say down toward its junction with the Green River , the oil men would get their supplies down there by boat . ( R . 979-981 , Vol . 5 . ) We have taken 15 or 16 tons at a time on the big boat . ( R . 988 , Vol . 5 . ) Harold W . C . Prommel , testified : I am a geologist and mining engineer and in 1920 went to Moab to study the geology of that section . ( R . 989-991 , Vol . 5 . ) 1 made the location for Shafer No . I Well . ( R . 997 , Vol . 5 . ) 1 ( recom- recom ) mended to my employers that in drilling that well they use river transportation because it was cheaper during the ( ex- ex ) ploration period and also quicker . ( R . 1003-4 , Vol . . 5 . ) In |