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Show Record read when I would go to the house, and I kept a check of those trips of the boats as she put them down in her diary. I used the diary several times to check up on dates of trip. The notations 5024 in the diary as to the trips of the big boat are correct. I know that of my own knowledge. The diary was kept by my mother in her own handwriting. Mr. Clark took that diary along with him when he went to Denver to be referred to as a record of dates. Thar diary correctly reflects of my own knowledge the trips of the big boat during the period that it covers. My mother has gone back to her home in Indianapolis, Indiana. She quit keeping that diary in June, 1927, and there have been about 40 trips made with the big boat since. Up to the time she quit keeping her diary, there had 5025 been approximately 200 round trips by the big boat. The big boat has made 7 round trips the last month, four of then from Lockhart and three from Shafer No. 1- No. 1 A. I recall an occasion when the barge was caught in an ice jan. There was no other occasion when ice ever stopped our operation since I began them there on the river. A conservative estimate of the tonnage hauled up and down the river by the Moab Garage Company since it started operations would be 3500 tons. 5026 We have hauled hundreds of passengers on all the boats. I haven't any record from which I could even approximate the number. Our operations on the river were commercially profitable. When we first commenced hauling our charge was $ 1.75 a hundred from Thompson to Shafer well No. 1 It is 33 miles from Thompson overland to the dock at Moab. And from the dock down the river to Shafer No. 1 well it is about 20 miles. We later lowered the rate from Thompson to the well to 5027 $ 1.00 a hundred. Most of the tonnage delivered to the Shafer No. 1 well was delivered at the dollar rate. The first 500 tons we got $ 1.75 for. We hauled a considerable tonnage down to the Shafer No. 2 well and the rate from Thompson to the No. 2 well was $ 1.25 as I |