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Show ( Mitchell Mitebell ) loaded his boat 1247 and started on ( tlie the ) ( down- down ) ( streani stream ) trip , he had . on about three tons of ( commis columis- columis ) ¬ sary supplies and mining equipment . The ( mining iiiii-ving iiiiiving ) equipment consisted of a car and track , the steam boiler and engine , picks and shovels . ( ( K R ) . 4905- 4906 . ) ( Mitchell's Mitchells ) boat was about ( twenty-five twentyfive ) or ( twenty-six twentysix ) feet long , about ten feet wide , and loaded would draw about eighteen inches of ( water Nyater ) . This was in the forepart of the winter . He saw ( Prank Frank ) Bennett and ( Mike Alike ) Ryan , who ( were ivere ) operating the California Bar , several times . They used to come down the river to see him ; he would go up and see them , and they would visit back and forth . Going upstream they would row or pole or tow , and used ( light-draft lightdraft light-dxaft lightdxaft ) boats . ( R . 4907 . ) It was the first of the year of 1901 that ( Stanton's Stantons ) party came down with two or three boats , putting ( tip up ) notices of placer claims . They went on ( down- down ) , scream past his place ( and an4 ) he did not see them when they came back up at any time . The ( Stanton tanton ) boats ( were ivere ) carrying camp supplies . ( R . 4908 . ) He knew a man by the name of Andy Strauss . It was during that period that ( Mr Air ) . Strauss ( and aud ) a party came down from Dandy Crossing , stopped at his bar , and did some prospecting . Strauss had two boats and the party consisted of five men and two ladies , one of the ladies being ( Mrs Airs ) . Strauss , and the other the wife of a gentleman from Boston . The boats ( were Nvere ) about ( sixteen sLxteen ) or eighteen feet long , |