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Show Record trip I accompanied Mr. La Rue up the Green River on Wimmer's boat. We could discover no fixed channel in the Green River except in two or three place where the bars threw the water against those rock cliffs at sharp curves. At these points the water was very fast and deeper. Especially where the river widened out it was full of low bars which shifted from day to day, conditions never 2120 being found the same. We had to pick a channel each time and it continually varied. Although there were no marked change on the river while we were there except that one flood down the Grand River, there was a shifting and changing of the bars. The five days that I have stated as the time consumed in coming upstream with the drill outfit is not running time but is the entire period 2121 from beginning to end of the journey. After we finished our survey trip it took us four or five days to make the journey back up the river. Kenneth Sawyer testified on cross examination as follows: The Mr. Wimmer I have mentioned is Mr. T. G. Wimmer who is sitting here in the court room, and I know that he is here as 2123 a witness for the government, Mr. Wimmer had been awarded the contract for freighting our equipment and supplies to the junction. 2124 When we loaded our drill outfit, equipment and supplies to take them downstream, there was a five foot space between the two scows which were planked together and loaded with the drilling machinery, so that our craft was about seventeen or eighteen feet wide and twenty- four feet long. Mr. Wimmer's boat, the Marguerite, was tied fast behind the outfit and shoved the scows. I imagine that the drilling machinery weighed about two and a half tons and that there was possibly a load of four tons in all on the two scows. 2126 One of our motor boats pushed the Betsy Ann downstream. We had provisions, supplies, tents, etc, loaded on the Betsy Ann and I think the load on the Betsy Ann was about two and a half or three tons. The row boats were moored alongside of the barge and the 2127 two scows. We used coal in our drilling operations and were com- |