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Show v tosfewyft iA ifr . - , - , * , , M , , , , , , . , , ( 7GS 768 ) ( pi'QfGssional piQfGssional ) ( employment ainjAoyrnent ) ( lias has ) taken him oil ( por- por ) ( tions tious ) of the Colorado River . He reached Moab oii the 31st of December , 1925 . They went ( down dowil ) from the boat landing to the ( John jobn ) Shafer No . I location , and arrived there late ( that 'that that ) night . He was there until the latter part of January , about the 25thy then returned to Midwest . And ( on oil ) ( approximate approximately ) the 25th of ( March Alareli ) he went ( back 'back back ) to the Shafer INIo . 1 location , and remained there continuously until about August ( 25th-about 25thabout ) the ( 1st Ist ) of September . ( R . 2960 . ) His first trip from Moab down to the Shafer No . I well was made on the Moab Garage ( Company's Companys ) big barge , ( stern-wheel sternwheel ) boat . ( R . 2960 . ) That was the same trip that ( Mr Air ) . Cleary made . About halfway down we had considerable trouble ( on oil ) one sand bar ; ended up by having to run a line ashore and pull the boat off by the winch ; they were there a couple of hours . Then darkness overtook them , and the boatman ( was -was was ) ( unable imable ) to go any further ; landed at a point called Grand landing , a point in the river about a mile above the Shafer No . 1 well location . ( R . 2961 . ) From that point they walked down the side of the cliff to the location . . As work in that section , between the 31st of ( De- De ) cember , 1925 , and the ( '25th 25th ) of January , 1926 , ( in- in ) ( cluded eluded ) the running ( out oat ) of existing permit ( bom-1- bom1 ) daries as established by monuments ( on oil ) the Frank Shafer and John Shafer permits , comprising eight sections in all oil both sides of the Colorado River . |