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Show Record I have done a considerable amount of land freighting down in that section of the country. As to the comparative cost of land freighting per mile 4809 with carrying freight on the Green River, I know only what it cost me. At the time I was delivering stuff for the government down to the junction of the rivers, I was also hauling for the Standard Chemical Company from Trachyte. It is 95 miles to Trachyte and we always called it 100 miles down to the junction. My cost per ton mile up stream was about twenty- five cents on the river for men hire, fuel burned and up- keep of the boat, not including de-preciation or overhead. My cost per ton per mile from Trachyte to Greenriver by team was thirty- five cents, not including depreciation or overhead. I hauled up stream the same as I would haul with a 4810 six horse team from Trachyte, about 3 tons. The scow cost about Two Hundred dollars. The boat cost me seven or eight hundred dollars, engine and all. The horses are worth one hundred and fifty dollars. A set of harness for two horses is worth about thirty- five dollars. I used three such sets. The wagon we used was worth two hundred dollars. The cost per ton mile of carrying freight down the river was about the same as going up. We would average eight tons going down, and average three tons coming up. I could take eight tons down for a little cheaper than I could bring three tons up. The depreciation with the land outfit was a great deal more than the depreciation on the water outfit. The depreciation of the boat was very little while the depreciation on the horses, harness, and wagon in that dry country was pretty heavy. According to my experience in that country freighting on land by wagon haul, is accompanied by a greater hazard than 4812 freighting by water. The roads are always in bad shape when you can only load one thousand to a horse. There is no road to my knowledge from Hanksville to the junction or from Greenriver to the junction. Thomas C. Wimmer testified on cross examination as follows: 708 |