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Show 387 is known as the Erni country. This is exceedingly rough, consisting of canyons in sandstone. " At the edge of the River country we approach Cataract Canyon - the Colorado River to the south with another drop of fifteen hundred feet. At this place, near Cataract Canyon, is the old Spanish trail, the lower end of the trail which led from the Grand River plateau down to the Colorado River, two and a half miles below its junction with the Green River. " Further north the same slopes, and different benches go down to the Green River." R. 994- 995. This country is practically uninhabited except for the camp of Joe Biddleton and his brother, located about sixty miles south of Greenriver, and a few sheepherders in the winter time and two or three men at the Duchesne Oil Association Camp at the falls near the San Rafael. " Further south, about twenty miles, is the old, uninhabited camp of an engineer by the name of Wolverton, who was in that country in the early days, around 1914 or 1915, interested in oil placer claims in the Elaterite basin. He established a camp there, and brought in overland a small oil rig to drill prespect holes, which rig he lowered over the Spanish trail and over the cliffs into Elaterite basin." R. 996 He did not have anything to do with the drilling of the Shafer No. 1 well but located the point where the well was drilled. |