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Show Record and other supplies for that oil well, and our company had brought 2906 in material by the river. I have had eleven years experience transporting equipment into every oil field that has been drilled by my company and the type of transportation has been one of my 2907 problem. In the development of an oil field the feasibility, cost and type of equipment that goes in there and the time when it should go in and the amount of tonnage that has to be put in over a given period and essential elements. At times it is necessary to get freight in there promptly. In our shipments of supplies from Moab the length of time consumed was a difficulty, as well as the fact that freight had to be unloaded at Thompson and again 2908 unloaded at the Moab dock and reloaded on to the boat. Being Com-pelled to load and unload twice has a bearing on the transportation problem and some breakage on equipment is incident to unloading. 2909 I have been on the Colorado River many times. Transportation 2910 into a producing oil field involves the movement of between fif-teen and forty- two million pounds of freight per year, according to our experience in oil fields. There is very seldom a commercial producing oil field with less than times wells. The size 2911 of the Moab Garage boat being used was not sufficient, its capacity being fifteen tons, and was not of sufficient capacity to to supply a producing oil field in and about Shafer No. 1 Well. To take care of the transportation for a producing oil field it would be necessary to have eight or ten such boats operating in the way the Moab Garage boat operated; it might require twenty such boats. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Mr. Cleary testified as follows; 2912 When I speak of equipment necessary to transport material for a producing well, I mean necessary to bring in equipment and supplies over a period of approximately five years. We were using oil derricks down there and a complete drilling rig for a depth of forty- five hundred feet weighs a million pounds in round |
