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Show LU6 ( sometimes SOMOU-111GS SOMOU111GS ) ( move 11,10ye 1110ye ) ( a "I I ) ( mile 111ile ) or two and sometimes as ( much 21111ch ) as four or five miles at a ( time till1e ) . He would ( row Tow ) and pole the boat upstream . ( ( B R ) . ( 4455 44D5 ) . ) Soda Basin is near ( Mexican lAlexica-li lAlexicali ) Hat , where there is a long point that ( runs rinis ) out to the north on the ( east cast ) side of which is Soda Basin . It is about a , ( mile inile ) and a half across the neck and about five or six miles around . He ( was iNas ) ( placering placerincr ) in the basin . When he took trips up the river he would take supplies in the boat . He returned the boat to Jim Joe in March of 1905 , when the high ( water Nater ) started and then got another boat . ( ( B R ) . 4456 . ) He went to Bluff and bought lumber and built a boat . The boat he borrowed from Jim Joe ( was -was was ) about sixteen feet long , four feet wide , ( with -with with ) a draft of about seven or eight inches , and the boat he built was sixteen feet in length , seven foot beam , with a draft of probably eight or ( ten tell ) inches . He got the lumber and nails for his boat from Frank H . Hyde , who was running a mercantile establishment there . After he built the boat , he bought supplies and took them down in the boat to his camp . ( ( B R ) . 4457 . ) He had about a thousand pounds of supplies , and he bought them from Frank Hyde and the ( Co-op Coop ) that was run by Kumen Jones . He built his boat right on the river bank in Muff , he maintained his camp between Chinle Creek and Mexican Hat until March , 1906 . While there , he moved the camp up and down the river as he worked . ( ( B R ) . 4458 . ) He |