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Show 7155 Gibbons- D 5136 the water for sluicing purposes. Q Was that in the early or late ' 90' s? A I don't remember; it must have been along after 1895. Q You say you built a race? A Cut a race- way through the bar to put in a power wheel; they walled this up with timbers and set the wheel right in there top get the force of the water contracted BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Do you remember how long after your first trip down there this was? A It was seven or eight years. Q Seven or eight years after your first trip? A After my first trip, yes. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q On your way down to do this work for the Hite Company did you see this boiler and engine that eight years or nine years, nearly, it was before, you had seen loaded there at Dandy crossing? A Yes; it was at Tickaboo bar I seen that, went and looked at it, and the workings for it there, when I went down with my stock to do this excavating. Q According to your best recollection how far, above the Good Hope bar was the Tickaboo bar? |