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Show Record river the channel would be at a different place. I didn't come 3377 down with the boat. At three different places we passed cables to shore, but I can't tell you exactly where those places were. One of them was about ten miles below Moab, and the others were fifteen or sixteen miles below Moab. A cable was taken to shore either by a man with boots or in a small row boat. I was not personally 3378 in the water. Where the man got out the water would average around his knees from where the barge was to the shore. We were hung up two hours on one occasion, when they had to drag the boat upstream about one hundred and fifty feet. I have never been on the San Juan River. Elliott Bird testified on cross examination as follows: The place where we dragged the barge one hundred and fifty 3379 feet upstream was approximately ten miles below Moab; at the two other places fifteen or sixteen miles below Moab they had to drag the boat upstream about fifty feet. On the two last mentioned occasions the cable was taken out in a row boat, and on one of them we were delayed an hour and on the other about an hour and a 3380 half. We left No. 2 Well about one o'clock on that day, came up to Shafer No. 1 Well, being hung up between those two points about twice; the first time about forty- five minutes and the second time over half an hour, no lines being passed to shore on either of those occasions. Next morning we left No. 1 Well at about 6: 30 3381 and arrived at Moab at about 7: 30 that night, having our lunch on the barge. From No. 1. Well to Moab we were held up four or five time and were delayed on an average of about twenty minutes of half an hour each time. We weren't held up altogether as much as two hours and a half. Five minutes was the minimum and thirty minutes the maximum amount of time that we were held up. The first 3382 time we were held up when we had to pass a line out was about six- teen miles below Moab. It is about twenty or twenty- five miles from Moab to Well No. 1. I would say that this occurred |