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Show 5278 Chaffin- D 3290 A No difficulties, any more than just towing the boat and poling it along; no serious difficulties. Q When you got through on Meskin bar or on these bars up there, the New Year bar, and the others you were working, then where did you go that year? A That was in 1896- 1897, winter of 1896 and part of 1897. 1896 Bennett and I -- or Meskin and I, went down the river on this trip. In 1898 -- hold on -- in the winter of 1898 I went down to what was called the Klondike bar, down below the San Juan. Q At what point did you enter the Colorado river? A At Hanson creek; I entered at Hanson creek, and built me a boat, or two boats. I made two big boats, about fourteen feet wide and eighteen or twenty feet long, something like that. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Fourteen feet wide? A Yes sir, fourteen feet wide, about eighteen feet long, one in a box shape, the other one I had a scow or a nose on it, whichever you call it. I put the big boat, one behind the other, fastened them together so they would go over these rapids and things like |
