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Show gravel and running it in 1246 a car down to the edge of the river , dumping it into a hopper , and used an amalgamator . The gravel was about ( forty-five fortyfive forty-fave fortyfave ) feet above the channel of the river . That fall , ( he lie ) believes in October , he returned to the river again and stayed until about May or June . He went down the river to the mouth of Hanson Creek , and again worked the ( Moqnie Aloquie ) Bar . ( R . 4902-4903 . ) - Supplies ( were -were were ) brought in the ( same sama ) way . The boat he had would draw about fifteen inches of water . During this period Mr . Ryan came down from the California Bar and he went with , him up to Good Hope , a distance of about ( twenty- twenty ) one miles , after the mail , in a boat and back . ( R . 4903-4904 . ) In going upstream he would row and tow , and also did some poling . This ( was -"ras ras ) in Mr . ( Ryan's Ryans ) boat , which was about sixteen feet long and three or three and ( one-half onehalf ) feet wide , a flat bottom boat , with a very light ( draft ch-aft chaft ) when not loaded . He believes the boat that he had would draw fifteen inches when loaded . ( R . 4904-4905 . ) He knows a many by the name of ( "William William William ) ( Mitch Mitch- Mitch ) ell . Mitchell came in with a load of supplies to Hanson Creek the second fall he was there , brought in a boat that he put together there , equipped it with a steam boiler and engine , and went down the river to the Klondike Bar . He took a short ride with ( Mitchell 'Nlitchell Nlitchell ) in his boat , but he did not go on down the river with Mitchell . He believes that when |