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Show or four hundred feet of ( twelve-foot twelvefoot ) 1368 rails . His brother , Lew Chaffin , accompanied him on the trip , but Mr . A . L . Chaffin , former witness in the case , did not ( * . ) \ > They encountered no obstructions or obstacles on the trip and were hung up on no sand bars or rocks or rapids . ( R . 5310 . ) They stayed at Independence or Shock Bar from sixty to ninety days and while there boated up and down Shock Rapids by rowing , . sailing , or towing . He never sailed up Shock Rapids without the aid of a pole or towing . This occurred from about the first to the middle of April , during the . ( high-water highwater ) period . ( R . 5311 . ) He does not know anything about the sale of the Independence Bar . He was there when an injunction was served , but does not know anything about the transaction . ( At At- At ) that time he quit and returned to the river the next year , 1899 , to the Moquie Bar . ( R . 5312 . ) During that year he did some sailing on the river , . going upstream to Good Hope Bar , to which point ( he- he he ) sailed and poled all the way , but did not get out ( of of' of ) the boat . He did not tow the boat through the . Hanson Creek Rapids or to the rapids at Tickaboo . He has sailed up the Bull Frog Rapids without the . aid of a pole or rowing or towing , and has also sailed up the Smith Rapids without any aid . His brother Arthur was with him during that year [ 1899 ] . ( R . 5312-5313 . ) He was again on the river in 1900 and 1901 , ( work work- work ) ing on the Moquie Bar and on the Stanton dredge and during that time he saw other boats on the . . |