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Show Record at Island Mesa we walked from there to Moab, going up to Island Mesa we rode in the company's boat called the Riff Climber. It was possibly seventeen feet long and four and a half feet wide 2918 and equipped with a Gray motor and tunnel propeller, which had been especially designed for this job by the Gray Motor Company. 2919 We submitted to that company the conditions existing on the river and asked them for a design of boat that would answer certain requirements as to speed and navigability, and took into considera- 2920 tion the matter of velocities. It took us an hour to go from Shafer No. 1 to Island Mesa. I next returned to the river on the evening of February 25, 1926, to make a road survey in to the well, 2921 From Moab I went to the mouth of the canyon and surveyed through the canyon; then returned to Moab; Then I spent four days going back and forth on the river, investigating the lower end of the survey and using the black passenger boat of the Moab Garage Company for going up and down the river. On one of those four days I went from Moab clear to No. 1 well. Exhibits 462 and 463 are maps on which is platted the road survey and the recognizance as made of the road from the Thompson- Moab road to No. 1 Well. 2923 ( Exhibits 462 and 463 were received in evidence.) The mark appearing 2924 in red on Exhibit 463 is the road I surveyed. Exhibits 464, 464 A and 464 B ( which were received in evidence) constitute a map of a preliminary survey and projected location of a road through Knob Canyon from a point on the Thompson- Moab road to the Colorado River; this is the same road as shown on my other maps, but it brings out the survey in our standard form for survey shots. 2925 I have only taken one trip on the barge of the Moab Garage Company, but was frequently on the Colorado River when I made my visits to the well. At different times we were stuck with the small passenger 2926 boat and at other times we made the passage quite freely. At every trip we found that there was a change or shifting in the channel, on one trip being able to find a way around and within few hours not being able to go through the same channel. This |