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Show 372 company drilling for oil on the Colorado River about twenty miles below Moab. 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 fifteen tons; light it drew about four inches of water. R961- 962 The first contract called for a rate of $ 1.75 per hundred for material transferred, on a basis of four hundred tons, the material to be transferred from Thompson to Kane Creek No. 1 wall. The usual rate per hundred pounds between Thompson and Moab is fifty cents, the distance being thirty- seven miles by truck. The distance to the Kane Creek No. 1 well from Moab being twenty miles, the rate per hundred pounds by boat is, therefore, $ 1.25. He has personally been down the Colorado River on the scow. He doesn't recollect having any operating difficulties on the trips which he took; did not strike any sand bars, Virgil Baldwin operated the boat. According to his best recollection, the scow cost about seven thousand dollars. After making the first contract and commencing freighting other freight was transported further down the river. For freight taken to the John H. Shafer well, thirty miles from Moab, a rate of seventy- five cents per hundred pounds was charged to |