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Show Record bars. did not get hung up a single time on that trip. Mr. Wheeler was the pilot and Mr. Wolverton ran the engine. Mr. Wheeler was one of the oldest men on the river. He first moved in there in 1884, I believe. He established a ranch, now called the Wimmer ranch. He had made many trips up and down the river. I was with him on several trips. I never went on any boating trip on the Green River in 4889 any kind of a boat where I met with a mishap. So far as the river is concorned, or its condition, or any condition in the river or its bed, I was never occasioned any trouble or annoyance except the ordinary work of getting my boat up and down stream in the river. I always got where I started for. 4890 W. F. Reeder testified on cross examination as follows: When I was on the motor boat I did not carry any poles or equipment of that kind to push off of sand bars. I have gotten out in the water to push off a sand bar, where I run up a little too far in an eddy. That happened only once in a while. On this motor boat trip I am sure we never run on a sand bar. We made a 4891 perfect trip. We did not strike an obstruction any where. I got back to Greenriver from Hite overland. I haven't been down to the Wimmer ranch since 1914. We have some oil derricks at Grescent. We drilled one well 4007 feet, another one 600 feet and another one 1200 and some 4892 feet. They have not been completed. One is standing full of oil. It was never cased. We are waiting now to go to work, waiting on a ruling from the Department. W. F. Reeder testified on examination by Special Master as follows: 4893 I took the six trips with Mr. Wheeler prospecting in 1902 and 1903. On the moving picture trip in 1914 I went as a boatman. 722 1843 |