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Show 553 He had difficulty with sand bars coming down in the row boat. At the mouth of Kane Spring Wash, below Moab; and two other places, one about a mile above the location of the Midwest Refining Company's test No. 1 [ well]; that would be about mile post 48 or 49; and three times in the next four miles below the Midwest Refining Company's well; that would be at mile post 41 and 47. R. 1350. The next time he has on the Colorado River it was January the 24th to February 2nd, 1926. R. 1350. On that trip he had a boat owned by the Moab Garage Company. " about sixteen feet long, five feet wide; it would draw from twelve to fourteen inches of water, depending on the load; this was motored by a Ford engine, and the propeller was properly enclosed with a grill to keep us from injury on sandbars, and on ice and stumps." R. 1351. His companion on that trip was A. Smith of Grand Junction, who had been in the employ of the Moab garage for some time previous. On that trip he went down to the head of Cat-aract Canyon, slightly over five miles below the confluence of the two [ Green and Colorado] Rivers. " Starting out of Moab, Utah, we were fairly heavily loaded; we had sixty- five gallons of gas and five gallons of oil with us; we commenced to encounter trouble after leaving mile post 39, which in the second camp of the Midwest Refining Company. |
