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Show Record in operation on the river at the same time. Three power boats and one boat with an cut- board motor. I have supplied the various oil companies with my service. We began on the 2nd day of March, 1925. For the transportation of freight alone the various companies operating below Moab have paid me approximately $ 40,000. We have had fixed charges for certain services on the river since we began river operation. We had different prices, according to the amount of tonnage we hauled down there. In addition to our freight operations we have had quite a little passenger traffic on the river. We have taken parties up and down the river to the confluence with the Green River. We have paid no attention to the Green River, confining our operations 973 to the Colorado River. We have run advertisements for sightseers and have invited traffic in our boats from sightseers and there has been some response to that. Since 1925 our boats have made from two hundred to three hundred trips with passengers only. We have had quite a number of employees working for us in this river service; among them has been Virgil Baldwin. He 974 worked on the scow. He had charge of the scow all the time. I was there on the job all the time. I handled the office end of it. I kept in touch with the trips and the freight carried. I have been managing the enterprise. During all of that freight and passenger river transportation in which I have been en-gaged since 1925 there has been no serious incident occur in the way of interference with navigation. The gasoline launches that we operate in commercial service there are 22 feet long, 6 feet wide, with screw propellor, and 18 feet long and 8 feet wide, and 18 feet long and 4 feet wide, respectively. The boats, other than the scow, we use to take small loads on rush trips. Defendants' Exhibit 1 looks like the pier, dock at No. 1. I do not know whether that is one of our boats shown in the picture |
