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Show ( He Re ) made ( ail an ) actual ( 7C3 763 ) reconnaissance pipe line Instrumental ( survey Sul-Vey SulVey ) ( 011 on ) the ground in January , but not a preliminary ( pipe-line pipeline ) survey . ( There Tbere ) was , however , a preliminary survey made for the ( roadi road ) ( R . 2942-2944 . ) He does not know whether or not the Midwest , ( Company Colnpany ) was one of ( tlie the ) defendants ( in iii ) a suit brought by the State of Utah ( , ) ) but the Midwest ( Company COmPal'Y COmPalY ) is no longer interested in the field , ( hav hav- hav ) ing relinquished its interests and stored its ( equip equip- equip ) ment . The interests that were sold or otherwise relinquished by the ( Midwest Midivest ) Company ( -were were vere ) ( ob- ob ) tained in the first place through the Utah Oil ( Re- Re ) ( fining filling ) Company and the Midwest Exploration , ( Company Compally ) , and when he said they were no longer interested there , he ( meant mealit ) they had parted with such interest as they did have . ( R . 2945-2947 . ) He arrived at that oilfield December 31st , 1925Y and immediately afterwards made a reconnaissance survey for a pipe line and for a road . At that time they had struck oil in the discovery well [ John H . Shafer No . 1 ] at a depth of two ( thousand fhousand ) ( twenty- twenty ) eight feet . He was not ( on oil ) the ground when they started to drill , and all of the heavy equipment had already been placed on the ground ( "when when vhen ) he ( -arrived arrived ) there . ( R . 2948 . ) When the company for which he worked begins drilling operations , it is the general practice to make a reconnaissance survey before going to the expense of getting their ( equipment eqtiipment ) and supplies on the ground . ( R 2948-2949 . ) It is their practice |