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Show Record Walter F. Edwards testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 2960 I am a civil engineer, employed by Midwest Refining Company and went to Moab on December 3, 1925. We went from there down to Shafer No. 1 Well that night and I remained there until about January 25. On March 25 I again returned to No. 1 Well and remained there continuously until about the first of September. On my first trip down I went on the big barge of the Moab 2961 Garage Company with Mr. Cleary. About half way down we had Con-siderable trouble on a sand bar and were thus delayed a couple of hours. We landed at Grand Landing and walked from there one mile to Shafer No. 1 Well. I then ran the boundaries of the permits as established by monuments on both sides of the river, in doing 2962 which work I had to cross the river from time. We used a motor boat, the Riff Climber, to take us to our work up and down the river and had trouble running on to sand bars. We ran on to these sand bars in crossing the river from Well No. 1 to points west or south of the river; the bars seemed to change at that point, which was known as the San Juan Landing, more frequently than any other place that we encountered; sometimes it was necessary to go a mile down the river and come back up a channel because it was impossible to get through a bar that had formed since our trip the previous day. We made one trip overland to the John H. Shafer permit, which is about eight miles down the river, and came back part way by boat, when we were stranded on a sand bar, left the boat there and walked into camp, a mile away. Next day the boat came up a was able to get off after daylight. When 2964 I left on January 15 I rode on the big barge. On the first trip out we had some trouble at the mouth of Bull Canyon, where it was necessary to cross from one side of the river to the other on account of a cross channel. When I returned on March 25 and went down the river on the barge, I do not recall encountering any trouble. The water was some higher than it had been in January |
