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Show Record and transportation business. I operate under the name of " Moab 961 Garage Company". We filed our schedule of rates with the Public Utilities Commission of Utah. My company owns a scow which is operated on the Colorado River. It does not have a name but the words " Moab Garage" are written on the front of it. It was built in 1925. It is 15 feet wide and 75 feet long; 3 feet deep from the gunnel to the bottom; the sides are 4 inch plank, the bottom is two layers of 2 inch plank, pointed bow, stern wheel, and was first operated with a motor taken from an automobile but we later put in an Industrial motor. It was constructed to care for a contract between our 962 company and the Midwest Exploration company, which company was drilling an oil well about 20 miles down the Colorado from Moab. We made a contract in writing with that company. The draft of the scow empty was 4 inches; with a load of 15 tone it drew about 20 inches. The Midwest Exploration Company paid us $ 1.75 a hundred 963 for transportation of their freight on the first contract from Thompson to Kane Creek No. 1 well for the first 400 tons. For transportation between Thompson and Moab we usually charge fifty cents per hundred pounds, a distance by truck of 37 miles. I have personally been down the river on that scow. I did not have any difficulty in operating it on any of the trips that I was on. I did not get stuck on sand bars. I took probably 964 5 or 6 trips. Virgil Baldwin usually operated the boat. The boat cost about $ 7000. After I made the first contract we transported other freight farther down the river. For that we got a dollar a hundred to Lockhart. From the 2nd day of March, 1925, until June, 1929, I think 245 to 250 trips were made altogether. I think 8 trips were made during the year 1929. 965 There are prospects of further freight. We expect another |