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Show Aside from these two 1390 occasions , ( he lie ) does not recall ( other -other other ) occasions ( when -when when ) a thing of this kind has ( hap- hap ) pened , and on the occasion last mentioned , it ( didn't didnt ) interfere with his progress on the river . Rocks fall in the spring of the year , and during the heavy rains in summer , and if the river were used as an improved highway , he ( doesn't doesnt ) know whether it could be entirely corrected or not , but the uses of dynamite in removing such rocks would at least reduce the hazard . ( R . 5393-5394 . ) He has never known of any one getting hurt by the falling rocks , nor has he ever known of any boat being damaged by them , or even hit . He has seen seasons when there was ice in the river , - and some seasons when there was little or no ice . The ice is an obstacle when that condition occurs . After he left Greenriver , he started surveying with the late Colonel Charles P . Tasker . At the present time he is spending his time in the . Henry Mountains , developing a gold property owned by himself and associates . The property has a mill on it and he has done sufficient exploration work . so that he knows something about the extent of the ore bodies . It is opened up with shafts , ( tun- tun ) nels , and open cuts . The vein he is working on at the present time is a little over four feet wide and on the plates they save eleven dollars per ton . ( There -There There ) is other gold mineralization in , that section . ( R . 5395 . ) |