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Show Record figures. A boiler, which is the heaviest single piece of machinery, weighs approximately twelve thousand pounds. Such a boiler, twenty- two feet in length over all, was brought down to these 2913 Wells on a boat. The total weight of the derrick is approximately two hundred thousand pounds, and it was brought down piecemeal. After you get a producing oil field, it is necessary to bring in tankage and camp equipment; there is tubing, rods and equipment, so that the movement of material into an oil field is almost continuous up to the point of its decline. The field generally flows at the beginning and the oil is pumped as the field declines and it is necessary to supply rods, tubing, casing, etc., which wear out and have to be replaced. The heavy equipment comes in first, 2914 but in a way that is continuous. Exhibit 461 is a recognizance I made for a pipe line and said exhibit was prepared at the Shafer camp between January 1 and 17. The pipe line as shown on Exhibit 461 proceeded up along the river to a point about six miles above Shafer No. 1 Well and thence through Knob Canyon to the point of 2915 the Thompson- Moab road. I made this recognizance by walking over that part of the line, going into both ends of the canyon far enough to satisfy myself as to the nature of the canyon and of the river; I walked over part of the line along the river and viewed it from a boat an I went up and downstream; I drove in a car on the Thompson- Moab section. I thus saw practically all of the proposed pipe line right of way. Exhibit 461 was received in evidence. Mr. Cleary testified further on direct examination as follows: 2916 On that same visit down there I located additional wells on each permit, among them the location for what we after wards termed our No. 2 Well. I only made the trip up to Moab when I went out, but was up and down the river on the oil structure practically all the time, or at least every few days. 2917 In doing this I only went part way by boat. When I came out |