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Show 1105 " They also washed down from the side of the hill through the sluice boxes; they had to pump the water up there. That is what those pumps were used for, for a mining proposition, trying to save gold out of the silt of the Colorado river-- the sand. " R. 2604 " Q. Did you ever take any gold out? " A. No sir. " Q. Beg pardon? " A. No. sir; we took amalgus; we thought it was gold; we sent it to Chicago to have it tested, and they found it was not. " R. 2604 They had a smaller boat in there. " A. We had two little launches, one steel boat, as I remember it, that they called a Bullin boat. He had a wooden boat there at first, regular row boat. " Q. What kind of motive power did those boats have? " A. Gasoline engine. " Q. For what purpose were those boats used? " A. The first one, they were going to use it for bringing coal down on the barge; they were going to build a little scow and bring coal down to the ferry, but they couldn't make the trips up there with it; but they did use it for pleasure perhaps once or twice to my recollection. " Q. The other launch, for what purpose was that used? " A. Just to be handy around there at the ferry when they wanted to get some wood in there out of the river, and so forth, to bring it in to shore." R. 2605 |
