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Show ' ( -'-'f f ) ( r'nwtilMilim rnwtilMilim ) MmKll 1249 uptsream , to row awhile , pole ( awhile dWhile ) , and tow awhile . ( ( K R ) . 4912 . ) He is not positive whether it was the fall of 1888 or 1889 that ( he lie ) first went on the river , but to tlie best of his recollection he went out the second time in 1900 or 1901 . In the spring of 1901 or 1902 , he went to ( work -work work ) for the ( Moquie Aloquie ) Mining Company . ( ( E R ) . 4913-4914 . ) Frank Bennett was the manager for this company , and they were operating the ( Olympia Olympid ) Bar . On this third visit he ( worked i-v'rorked ivrorked ) for the Moquie Mining ( Companj7 Company ) , who were operating on the Olympia Bar . He went on the river at Hite on this trip . He built a boat named the Lucy B , which was ( twenty- twenty ) eight feet long and about eight feet wide , with three and ( one-half onehalf ) foot sides . He took the Lucy B to the Olympia Bar , and took the engine and outfit , but it was not installed , and he only got downstream with the boat . He loaded the outfit in the boat and had two other boats and a raft , and there were eight in the party . The Lucy B , he believes , was loaded with about two tons of commissary supplies and mining equipment . The other boats were small , about sixteen feet long and three feet wide , flat ( bot bot- bot ) tom . The raft was about twenty feet long and about fifteen feet wide , and carried lumber and ( sup sup- sup ) plies ; perhaps 1,000 to 1,500 feet of lumber and some grain on top , and he does not remember whether or not there was more than one man on the raft . ( R . 4915-4916 . ) He believes the Lucy B |