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Show know how many thousand ( 1268 126S ) feet of lumber they hauled down to the ( Hole-in-the-Rock HoleintheRock ) before they started to work , but they were about a month getting the lumber down , and in addition , they carried food , tools , and machinery . ( R . 4975-4976 . ) After they arrived at ( Hole-in-the-Rock HoleintheRock ) , the first thing they did was build a boat about ( thirty-eight thirtyeight ) feet long , by sixteen or ( eight eight- eight ) ¬ een feet wide . It was a large flat boat , and they had a tub on it about six or eight feet around , and paddles that worked in the tub . They intended to use , the outfit in placer mining , and also had a water wheel forty feet around , built on the boat . ( R . 4977 . ) There were two decks on the boat , they slept on the lower deck , and had their provisions and chemicals down there . On the upper deck they had a ( carpen carpen- carpen ) ( ter's ters ) and ( blacksmith's blacksmiths ) shop , with anvil and tools , and the cooking was done on the upper deck . They also bad a hydraulic pump and hose , four different kinds of screens , and had two amalgamating boxes . ( R . 4978 . ) There were seven amalgamators in each box , and he would judge the load that was put on the boat was two or three tons . In addition to this boat they built a small skiff at ( Hole-in-the-Rock HoleintheRock ) . After they got these boats built they went down the river in the neighborhood of eight miles , pulled in in an eddy and went to work on the bench above . The cliffs were up twenty feet above the boat where the bench ran back ; they were prospecting mostly , and would wheel the dirt in wheelbarrows . This was about December , 1888 . ( R . 4978-4979 . ) |