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Show Record Frank Bennett and Nike Ryan were operating the California bar at that time. They used to come down to see us at times and we went up to see them, visiting back and forth from the two bars. 4908 We used light draft boats and rowed, poled or towed going up stream. That winter, first of the year, 1901, Stanton came down with a party of two or three boats putting up notices on the placer claims. If I am wrong on the year, I saw the party at any rate. They went on down stream past our place. The boats were carrying camp outfits and supplies. 4909 I knew Andy Strauss. During that period he and a party came down from Dandy Crossing and stopped at our bar. They had two boats, with five men in their party, as I remember, and two ladies. The boats were flat bottom, about 16 or 18 feet long. One of the ladies was Mrs. Strauss. The other lady was one of the other gentlemen's wife from Boston. The Strauss party went on down below Hall Creek about a mile to the Little Anderson bar. I know of my own knowledge that Mr. Strauss worked that bar. We went down there to visit them once during that winter. I think Mr. Strauss had five or six men working when I was there. Mr. Strauss came back up a short time after he went down with his party and stopped at our bar for a while and went on up stream, I understand, to Hite. That was in the spring of 1901, as I remember, or in the winter of 1899, right along that certain year that I was on the river. The boats that Mr. Strauss used going down wouldn't draw over 8 inches if not heavily loaded. Coming up stream Mr. Strauss used one of the boats he went down in. 4911 Bert Seabolt was managing the Good Hope bar during that period, Mr. Ryan and made a trip to Good Hope bar that year after mail. Usually the Good Hope people were operating and making various trips up and down the river with boats for supplies to Dandy Crossing, and they would bring the mail down that far, and then some of us in turn would go up there in a boat and get the mail and bring |