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Show 1043 times when he hauled supplies in and about Warm Creek. The survey party moved three or four times a day until they met the party coming down the river, and it was in the vicinity of Warm Creek that he quit hauling supplies. The paddle wheel he spoke of made the going just possible, and before this they towed the boat most of the time, but with the paddle wheel they were able to make a little more progress. R. 2476. On account of the water being shallow it stuck on the sand, and they sometimes had to tow it over a bar even with the paddle wheel, and it was sometimes necessary to use a winch to get off, not always, for if he got the boat sideways the current would wash it out in two or three hours. He did not count the number of times. He remembers answering " So far as I can remember", when he was asked whether or not the winch was left on the boat after he had installed the paddle wheel, and he has a clear recollection of the winch being on the boat after the paddle wheel was put on, and has a clear recollection of using it after that, and the reason he hesitated was because the second year out there he cut the bow off the boat and added four feet on the point of the bow, and he does not remember whether the winch was left on or not. He operated the boat all of the second year, and it was put on before the boat was in the water, but he does not remember if the winch was on the second year. He knew it was on the first year. R. 2477- 2478. While the paddle wheel was on the first year, a larger wheel, and a different engine with a slower speed, was put on the second year. The paddle used the first year was only five feet, and the second year he had an eight foot wheel, with the |