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Show Record going on, we went on. We made the return trip upstream to Hanson Creek along in February. The water wasn't high and we led the boat back up. A time on two it was necessary on the upstream trip for us to get out and into the water, but perhaps we could have poled the boats over those places. After reaching Hanson Creek I left the river and returned about September of that year. While I was in there in 1892 and the early part of 1893, there were some people operating at Hall's Crossing and quite and outfit 3273 up below Hite in charge of Cass Hite and others. There were men at Tickaboo and at Good Hope and along those bars. I think there were probably twenty- five or thirty men there at that time. I went bank to the river in September, 1894, to the mouth of Hanson Creek. Meskin had done something with our boat and he did not go out when 3274 I did. One my return I prospected a long up the river on what is known as Sun Dog and Upper Smith Fork and also along Olympia Bar. Two young follows were with me and we made a contract to put some wood and timber on to the California Bar for Messrs. Mitchell and Ryan. During that year we went upstream with our boat, rowing and towing. When you are traveling below rapids, where the water is still, you get in your boat and row it along. You can't row up the rapids but have to pull your boat up. If you have a big boat, you can't pole it up, and that is the way that we would go up the river, generally getting out and wading over the rapids. 3275 In delivering wood we would make it into rafts and also load our boat with what we could and bring it down to the Mitchell party for fire wood, etc. On that occasion I think I remained in there until February, 1895, and during that time I and the men who were with me went in partners with a man named Bennett ( not a witness in this case) and Charlie Voight, and mined along the river up 3276 above the California Bar. There was then a post office at Hite, to which point supplies were brought overland, and then we would 3277 take them down the river by boat. The bar we were working on that year was about thirty- five or forty miles below Hite. In going |