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Show 5292 Chaffin- D 3303 were swift places couldn't get her over. Q About what power launch was this? A I can't even tell you a thing about it. It has been testified here about the engine and everything by Mr. Bennett, I think, the same launch brought from Lees Ferry. Q Did you continue to operate in that country from 1899 on? A Yes sir. Q Take the period between 1899 and 1908, can you tell me briefly where you were and what you did? A Them years I placer mined along there. To give dates of all the trips -- seems like I have got to go into those that are the most important to me. I operated along the river. If I wanted to move my stuff, if I was placer mining, wanted to move down the river, I took everything up and took everything down. If I wanted to go up, I took what I had to have, and left the rest. When we went up the river, my experience was, it always required a lot of energy to get up her. Going down it was the other way. We was troubled in low water at timer on these mud bars or sand bars that would accumulate during the changes of the stages of water. As a rule, along the latter part of February, when the freezing was on, the river would be pretty low, then she |
