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Show Record I went our from the river in 1903 or 1904. I was off the river for practically a year after I left the dredge. I returned in 1904 or 1905. Frank Bennett and I went to the Moquie bar. We stayed there for a while. We did not do any placer mining. I took a trip from there to the Olympia bar and brought some things back. We used the Lucy B. We brought back some camp equipment. At that time the engine was out of the Lucy B. She had a stern- wheel when I saw it. The diameter of the wheel was about 4 feet. 4934 I do not remember of ever seeing a side- wheeler on the river. In 1904 or 1905 I did some work for Cass Hite at the Tickaboos and Red Canyon. I went from Moquie bar to Red Canyon. I made two or three trips from Red Canyon to Dandy Crossing after 4935 supplies. It is about 12 miles from Red Canyon to Dandy Crossing. I got lumber and grain and commissary supplies. I made a raft and towed the raft down behind the boat with the lumber, grain and stuff on it. My raft carried perhaps 1000 pounds, maybe a ton. It was about 16 or 18 feet long and 10 feet wide. I used a small 16 feet boat on that trip. I went down the river that winter about the holidays a short distance below the mouth of the San Juan with a fellow 4936 from the Klondike prospecting. I don't know the fellow's name. We called him Klondike. We got to the bar that we started for. It was below the mouth of the San Juan perhaps half a mile or a mile. We stayed at that bar over night and part of the next day, then we came back up the river to Cass Hite's. We poled practically all of the way up the river. We did a little sailing and a little rowing. He was an expert poler, and taught me how to pole with two men in a boat, one man in the bow and one in the stern, and we made very good success, the best success I ever made by man- 4937 power coming up the river. It was either the latter part of December or the first part of January. We had no trouble with ice on that trip. We had no difficulty getting up the rapids in that stretch except hard work poling. We poled every rapid through there without getting our of the boat and did not put a tow line |