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Show Record and I observed no other difficulties or impediments to navigation 5381 on that stretch of water. I took that trip in April, 1926, leaving Salt Lake City April 10 and returning to Salt Lake City about April 22. On leaving Salt Lake City we went first to Moab. It was stipulated between the parties to the action that Governor Dern would describe the trip in which he traveled sub-stantially as did Mr. Dave Rust. Continuing his direct examination Governor Dern testified: When we went to Moab, as I have stated, I took a river trip from Moab to Shafer No. 1 oil well and back to Moab. We went down on the Moab Garage Company's large power boat with which they transported freight and other supplies to the well, and there was a party of thirty or forty people on the boat besides a lot of freight when I made this trip down to No 1 Well. We came 5382 back on a smaller and faster boat that same afternoon. I do not recall encountering any delay or obstruction either on the down trip on the large boat or our return trip in the lighter boat. Everything went smoothly. George H. Dern testified on cross examination as follows: My recollection is that we went from Salt Lake City to Moab on April 10 and made the river trip from Moab to No 1 Well on April 10, 1926. When we left Salt Lake City we intended to also take the trip through Glen Canyon to Lee's Ferry. After returning from No. 1 Well to Moab we drove over to the town of Green River and from there by automobile to Hanksville and Granite Springs, 5383 River. We were about two and a half days making this overland trip from Moab to the mouth of Crescent Wash. We had made ar-rangements with Dave Rust to meet him at Hanksville and the matter of going by boat to the point where we were to meet Rust was never considered and no such trip had been planned. I have no knowledge as to whether we could have made the trip by water bu we had not |