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Show Hyde- C 647 A Yes sir. Q Across the river, back and forth? A Yes, it was. Q It was constructed for the purpose of conveying freight and passengers across the river? A Yes sir. Q I believe you said the Indians would drive right on with their loads? A Right on their ponies, and sit on the loads on the boat, and ride off at the other and, and go up to the store. Q This boat carried as many as fifteen or twenty at one time? A Yes, carry that very easy. Q Indians on their horses? A Yes sir, and their packs of wool and skins on the pony. Q Carry the whole works over? A Yes: built to carry two wagons, larger enough. Q How long did it operate in that way? A I think that we ran it one season; as remember we ran it when it was finished, that was along in the early spring, and I think it went out the next springs; probably didn't go out until the next fall; we didn't need a boat there all the time. Q I am not asking you about that. It is your best recollection it operated there two summers? A I would say a year and a half, -- eighteen months, as near as I can remember 2616 |