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Show Record wrong channel. Mr Wimmer was with us and he had the contract for our freighting during those operations. I think it took us other four or five days to come upstream with the outfit, but we not with no serious accident and arrived at Wimmer's ranch, which was about twenty- five miles below the town of Green River, Utah, where we stopped because there is a series of gravel bars and faster water above Wimmer's ranch and it was not possible to bring 2114 the outfit up over those bars. We unloaded the drill and other equipment at Wimmer's ranch, took it to Green River by Wagon, and shipped it by rail from there to another job. In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master Kenneth Sawyer testified as follows: 2116 Sheet 31 to 36 in Exhibit 10 are survey maps made on that trip. In surveying above the town of Green River and in surveying the country above Wimmer's ranch, we did not use the river. 2117 Captain Yokey had charge of the operation of the motor boats and the navigating on the survey trip. Our motor boats were fourteen or sixteen feet long, possibly four or five feet wide, and I don't think they drew more than seven or eight inches. In using those boats we encountered trouble with sand bars, but after you have been on the river a week you become accustomed to sand bars and they are regular things, the same as eating and sleeping. If we could not push the barge off a bar we would wade around the back end and while some of the worked the stern of the back and forth, the others would push and finally we would get it off the bar and 2118 into water that would float it; it drew very little water. We didn't put the paddle wheel on this barge or scow until after we ceased our drilling operations on our later trip when we were bringing out the drill outfit. Exhibit 264 was taken about fifty or sixty miles below Green River, Utah, and shows the scow being pushed off a sand bar. The scow used by us on the survey trip was 2119 the Betsy Ann barge. While drilling operations were in progress, I |