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Show 153 * grain on the raft . We encountered no difficulties on that trip and I ( don't dont ) recall that we were hung up at any place . I then stayed down there on the river until about 1904 . ( R . 4914-19 , Vol . 28 . ) During that last mentioned stay on the river I made some upstream trips with the Lucy B . , which had an old automobile engine in it supposed to develop about ( 6-horsepower 6horsepower ) . I ( don't dont ) think the engine developed over two or three horsepower . Sometimes it would pull pretty good , but if it got a little too warm it would stop , and if the wind was blowing the tubes ( wouldn't wouldnt ) heat and it would stop ; the engine would stop going either up or downstream . I made trips in that boat carrying supplies , mining ( equip equip- equip ) ¬ ment , lumber , rails and other types of freight to different points on the river . Among the trips I made were trips to Good Hope Bar and to Moquie Bar . ( R . 4919-21 , Vol . 28 . ) After we removed the engine from Lucy B . , I made several trips ( with w-ith with ) it ; once to Dandy Crossing for a load of supplies that I brought back to Good Hope . There we built a raft and took a ( 2-ton 2ton ) load on down to ( Olympia Dlympia ) Bar . We had no difficulty in going upstream ( with iv-ith ivith ) the Lucy B . , sailing a good deal of the way , and on the down trip journey we had no difficulty . ( R . 4922-3 , Vol . 28 . ) We made a trip with the Lucy B . to where Strauss was operating at the Anderson Bar below Halls Crossing , there got a load of pipe , and came back upstream . We sailed most of the way back and sailed practically up Bullfrog Rapids when there was a lull in the wind and we had , to help the boat a little distance . From there on to Olympia Bar we sailed most of the way . I made several other trips besides those I have mentioned . We made several trips up to Good Hope Bar for mail , sailing upstream . ( R . 4923-4 , Vol . 28 . ) ( I 1 ) never encountered ( any-trouble anytrouble ) with sand bars except when going upstream , keeping close to the shore in order to avoid the current and get easy water . My boat never encountered a sand bar when it was in the channel of the river . ( R . 4924-5 , Vol . 28 . ) ( I 1 ) recall one trip in a small boat from ( Olym Olym- Olym ) ¬ pia Bar up to North Wash where we picked up a third man and ( went ivent ) on up to Dark Canyon , rowing , ( towing to"ring toring ) , sailing and ( poling- poling ) . ( R . 4925 , Vol . 28 . ) In 1903 or 1904 ( I 1 ) acted as watchman at the old Stanton dredge and for six or seven months ran a trading post on the river . My first supplies came in at Hanson Creek and I boated them down to the dredge ; other supplies came to the river at Wilson Creek . I used a scow with a stern wheel on it that was equipped |