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Show Record bar I would say was one day at noon until the next day about eleven o'clock. Then there were times when we would get stuck in the afternoon and have to stay there all night. I would say that happened about a dozen times during all of the time I was there. I did not always have to take a line to shore. Usually I did not have to. 1209 Twenty- five per cent of the time I did not have an diffi-culties going either way. About fifty p0er cent of the time I wouldn't have any difficulty that would tie me up for more than a few minutes and the remaining twenty- five per cent of the time I would say that I had delays that were for more than a few minutes, 1210 and those delays would vary from 5 or 6 hours to a day and a half, and some of those times in that twenty- five per cent wouldn't be anything like 5 or 6 hours, probably no over 2 or 3 hours at a time. The big boat is still there at Moab ready for business. The black boat is out of condition now. The big boat and the passenger boat are in condition. If there is anything to be hauled, I will probably go back there ready to go on handling the boats. 1212 Virgil Baldwin testified on re- direct examination as follows: There is no business for the big boat now that I know of. It has been five or six weeks since I made a trip with the big boat. I have operated the boat at night for short distances, say when we were coming in late, then we would probably come on in to dock. We always had difficulty in finding our way at night, because we couldn't judge the distance from where we were to the bank after night. 1213 We used about 3000 pounds of dynamite to shoot that ice out. We hauled that amount of dynamite over the road from Grand Junction. From Moab we made a number of trips down the river with the dynamite in a small boat. 1214 The channel was completely frozen over when the boats came up with the dynamite, this being a narrow place in the river. - 162- |