OCR Text |
Show down the stream while ( 1147 1.147 ) lie ( was Nas ) at ( Zalm's Zalms ) Camp . This scow belonged to Cap Williams . In 1895 ( he lie ) ( went weiit ) from Bluff City to ( Honakcr Honaker ) with burros , and not by boat , as it was easier to get there with burros . ( R . 4561 . ) He wanted to take care of his burros , and he ( wasn't wasnt ) a boatman . ( "When When Wlien ) he got down into Honaker he established a camp at the trail ; had picks and shovels , food and supplies , rocker and copperplate , and gold pans , but he ( didn't didnt ) have a boat and ( he lie ) ( didn't didnt ) make a boat or borrow one from anybody . The trips ( he lie ) made up or down were made on a raft that he built , about sixteen feet long ( and I-Ind IInd ) five ( feet -feet feet ) wide . ( R . 4562 . ) He went up the river a mile or a mile and a half . Two men would tow and one inan would , push from the bank of the river . It took three men to tow it up . ( The"aft Theaft ) would be loaded with their camping supplies , picks and shovels , and they would remain up there ( a It ) week or ten days or longer and work the river . They ( were were- were ) working at the ( low- low ) water mark , and after the river went down they followed it right down , but they ( didn't didnt ) put out any location notices . ( R . 4563 . ) This was in October of the first year . He ( doesn't doesnt ) remember just what month it was in the second year , but it was late in the fall or early winter . ( When -NAThen NAThen ) he got through he went down to the ( head head- head ) quarters camp at Honaker Trail , and went down below about a mile and a . half , or two miles , and |