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Show 931 amalgamator, and the plates to run the amalgum over to gather the gold. " We had an ice plant on shore." R. 2202. The ice plant was used for keeping the supplies from spoiling, and was necessary because it was hot down in that country, and without it you couldn't keep fresh meat. All for the equipment for the dredge and the ice plant was brought in overland with teams to a point about a mile below where the dredge was working, where it was loaded on a flat- bottom scow and pulled up the river to the dredge. A telephone line was installed between the two bars where they were working, and the place where they camped, or where the teams came in. " We had a heavy telegraph wire, and we had that anchored up the river, and a windlass on the scow: they would let that wind off and let the scow go down the river to the bar, then the men on each side would windlass that up to the camp and unload it. We left most of the gasoline we were using on the lower bar, didn't take so much up; I left several thousand gallons of gasoline on the bank in a tank." R. 2203- 2204. No difficulty was encountered with sand bars in taking the scow up and down the river in that place; " we couldn't have gone up the river any further, though." " THE SPECIAL MASTER: Strike the latter part of that out." Wagons couldn't get up the river from the landing to the dredge because in that place the river ran along a perpendicular bluff; " we had to use the scow and boat running up. " Still, at the same time, I have rode horseback with a horse across the bar, right across the river, and rode up the bar time and again, and never got my feet wet. Took a horse |