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Show Record Independence Bar, also know as Shock Bar, located about fifteen miles below Hall's Crossing. There were eight of us in the party and we had a boat, and also a twenty or twenty- four foot raft that was about ten or twelve feet wide. We carried grain, supplies, 5310 machinery and some track rails down with us. We had approximately twenty- five hundred pounds of load on our boat, which was a twenty foot boat, and on the raft we carried a thousand or fifteen hundred feet of lumber and three or four hundred feet of rails. My brother Lew Chaffin ( not A. L. Chaffin who has already testified) was with me on that trip. We encountered no obstacles or obstruc-tions to navigation on the trip and did not get hung up on any sand bars, rocks, rapids, or otherwise. Mr. Bennett was not a mem- 5311 ber of that party. I remained at Shock Bar something like sixty to ninety days and during that period had occasion to go up and down Shock Rapid by rowing, sailing or towing, although I didn't sail up those rapids without either the aid of a pole or towing. We made that trip down to Shock Rapid some time in April, when the 5312 water was high. We quit work on the Shock, otherwise called the Independence Bar, after an injunction was served upon us. Next year, 1899, I again returned to the river and worked 5313 on the Moquie Bar. I sailed boats that year, making a trip to Good Hope Bar by sailing and poling all the way and did not get out of my boat in going up. The rapids include Hanson Creek Rapid and the lower rapid at Tickaboo No. 2. I have sailed up the Bull Frog and Smith Rapids without the aid of a pole or without rowing or towing the boat. 5314 In 1900 I worked on the Moquie Bar and also at the Stanton dredge, and during that year saw other boats besides our stravers-ing the river. During the years that I was there up to and includ-ing 1901, I saw each year other boats besides ours in use upon the river, and going up and downstream with men and supplies. In 1906 5315 I saw Galloway and his party go down the river. About 1900 I saw 803 |