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Show 456 The boat could be taken down stream in that time about twenty- five per cent of the time; the other seventy- five per cent take longer because of trouble with sand bars. R. 1169- 1170. " Q. That is the greatest length of time you ever consumed in that trip down stream? A. One trip to No. 2 well, as we call it, twenty- seven or twenty- eight miles down the river, we got stuck about a mile and a half below Frank Shafer well No. 1 for a day and a half, I think it was; that is the longest time we were stuck, I guess." R. 1170 This was in August, 1928, and the boat was stuck where the river took four different courses, none of them being deep enough to float the boat. " MR. FARNSWORTH: I don't understand whether he was a day and a half making that trip, or whether he was stuck a day and a half. " MR. WITNESS: Stuck at one place a day and a half." R. 1170- 1171 The complete trip was made in probably two days and a half. At other times when the boat was stuck on sand bars it ordinarily took from an hour to four hours to very many times get the boat free. The longest time spent in making one trip from Shafer No. 1 well to Moab was ten hours. R. 1171 " Q. Mr. Baldwin, where with reference to Moab is the bar that you spoke about that it was necessary to turn up before you could get out? |