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Show As near as ( lie he ) remembers 1245 he was first on the ( Colo- Colo ) rado River in 1898 or 1899 . He was living at ( Teas- Teas ) dale at that time , and went to the mouth of Hanson Creek , crossed the river , and went down about a mile to the Moquie Bar , where his brothers , Lou and George Chaffin , were working . He was there for about four months , going in in October or November and left in the spring . ( ( E R ) . 4900 . ) During the time he was working on the Moquie Bar there were five of them , and they ( got g9t ) their supplies from the mouth of Hanson Creek , and boated them down and across the river to the Moquie Bar , about a mile and a half . In ( trans trans- trans ) porting the supplies he used a boat about sixteen feet long and four feet wide , square built . It had uopower , and was rowed , poled , and towed . They were using two teams , for which they had to haul in the necessary grain , and he believes that he made at least six trips back and forth during that time . ( R . 4901-4902 . ) These six loads that came in were wagonloads , and two wagonloads would usually make about three boatloads . During this same ( pe- pe ) riod he went up to ( Mike Alike ) ( Ryan's Ryans ) at the California Bar , a distance of about three miles , in the boat he just described . They just had the one boat , and took one trip down the river that winter , as far as Moquie . Canyon , about three miles . ( R . 4902 . ) In going upstream on these trips he ( would -would would ) either ( row low ) , , pole , or tow . They were scraping the gravel into a pit and screening it , catching the screened ( 13307-31-VOL 1330731VOL ) . . 2-83 |