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Show Record 1895 and 1896, on two different occasions. In 1895 I went from Bluff City down with burros. We did not take a boat from Bluff City because we could get there easier with the burros and because 4562 we were not boatmen. When we got down to Honaker trail we established a camp there and had placer mining equipment . We did not have a boat. We built a raft about 16 feet long and 5 feet wide. From Honaker trail we went up the river with the raft about a mile or a mile and a half. We took it up there by two men towing it and one pushing from the shore. When we took it up we had on it our camping supplies, picks and shovels. We remained there a week or ten days and worked the river. It was during low water. 4564 In the month of November. When we got through up there we came back down to Honaker trail. Honaker trail was our headquarters camp. We then went down the river a mile and a half or two miles below Honaker trail and remained there ten days or two weeks. It was in November or early December. When we got through there we 4565 turned the raft loose. We got back to Honaker trail by towing ourselves back on the raft. It was pretty hard work, I will admit. We did not have to get in the water. After we got through at Honaker trail that year we went to Bluff City and remained there all winter. The next season we 4566 went back to Gable Camp, overland, with our supplies. We always had a boat at Gable Camp. I was at Honaker in 1895 and 1896. I spent a little time at Honaker trail in the winter time but the summers I spent most of my time at Zahns Camp. At Zahns Camp I would go up and down the river to get wood. We rowed the boat and sometimes we had a sail on it. Coming up we would push the boat with a stick. We never had to tow it. The water was not as swift as it was around Honaker trail. I remained there a good deal of the summer. During the time I was there we got our supplies overland from Bluff. None came down the river in boats. Then some other persons any myself went back to Honaker trail, going overland. We were there possibly two months, from the |