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Show 6989 Fortheringham- D 4977 Q What did you do after you got your stuff unloaded there at Hole- in- the- Rock? A We went to work and built a boat the first thing. Q What was the size of the boat you built? A It was about thirty- eight feet by sixteen or eighteen wide; I disremember. Q I wish you would describe your boat in other respects, as to whether you had any decks on it, and what king of boat it was. A Well, it was a large flat boat and we had a tub probably five feet high and six or eight feet around, and there was four paddles that worked in this tub. We had an apparatus from the horsepower, cogs on it, which worked these paddles. Then there was two boxes in about that shape ( indicating), up to the tub. Q I don't care so much about the detailed description of the tub. That tub you have been describing was something you took in there and were intending to use in placer mining, was it? A Yes. Q what I wanted to know, before we get to the load on the boat, was a little further description of the character of the boat. Did you have anything built on it? |