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Show Record to have coal to generate steam in our boilers. The Marguerite had a gasoline engine. We were three or four days on 2129 our down journey with the drilling equipment. We took some coal down with us and Mr. Wimmer would bring us more coal for use in our drilling operations on his subsequent trips down. Wimmer made these trips up and down the river, supplying us with coal and other things required by our party with more or less regular-ity. I imagine he made four or five round trips. I think he aimed to come down about once every two weeks and that was the 2130 only schedule he had. I can't tell exactly, but I think he would bring down about a thousand pounds of coal at a trip on the Mar-guerite. I remember trip in the motor boat El Rita when I took 2131 up with me my month's reports, etc. On that trip we went from the junction up to Moab in the motor boat and there I hired a Ford and drove over to Green River. Then I returned down the 2133 Green River to the junction in a motor boat on September 5. The man who brought me up to Moab on this trip took that motor boat 2132- 2133 back down the river. On another occasion I went in a motor boat from the junction to Moab, went from there over to Green River and back by auto, and returned from Moab to the junction on the 2134 river in the same motor boat that had brought me up. I recall an occasion when an imposter, giving his name as U. S. Steele and representing himself as being in the employ of the U. S. Geological Survey, came down to the junction and there induced our party to take him up the Colorado River to Moab in one of our launches. Steele came down the Green River to the junction in a row boat. 2135 Toward the latter part of our drilling operations, I think after the flood that brought down the driftwood, I made another trip from the junction up to Moab and returned to the junction either down the Colorado from Moab or perhaps went over to Green River 2137 and came down that river with Mr. Wimmer. When we brought our drilling equipment out the Betsy Ann was loaded with our machinery and possibly six or eight hundred pounds of coal and carried three |
