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Show Record more than that with the bits, etc. This machinery was located on the west side of the river at Tickaboo Bar and I took it as far as Hanksville, carrying it on the river from Tickaboo Bar to the mouth of Hanson Creek, a distance of eighteen miles. The rig was later set up at Elaterite Basin, located on an sir line eight or ten miles from the mouth of the Green River. From Tickaboo Bar to Hanson Creek we carried the machinery on a raft and boat. 3313 Mr. Frank Bennett and the contract far moving this machinery and 3314 got me to help him. They drilled for oil with this machinery. I believe it was in November, 1904, that I made a river trip from Green River, Utah, to a point down below Cataract Canyon with A. G. Turner in a sixteen- foot boat, decked over at both ends. Turner is operating the California Bar on the Colorado River. We had our bedding and scarcely enough supplies for the 3315 trip. Perhaps our boat drew eight inches loaded. Between the town of Green River and the mouth of the San Rafael, we didn't encounter a bit of difficulty except a little rough water; we ran right down there without any trouble at all. After we left the San Rafael we had a lot of trouble finding the channel, the river spread out and it seemed as if the water was shallow and there was no place to go. We could get through by getting off and pulling our boats over a place. " Maybe we could have looked around and found a channel." If we got in the wrong place and found we could not get through, we backed up; and found a place where we could get through. We got down all right but the river was pretty 3316 shallow. Off and on we were hung up on sand bars below the San Rafael until we arrived at the south of the Green. From the mouth of the Green we went up as far as Moab and back, and " I don't remember having any trouble at all going up there. I don't remember ever getting up against anything that was any trouble." We had two boats with us and left one of the boats at the junction of the rivers when we started up to Moab. In going upstream to Moab one of us rowed and the other poled " like ordinarily getting up such |