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Show 1326 . i bridge now is , up the river to a point about two miles above Castle Creek . The boat , as ( he lie ) recalls , was about ( twenty-four twentyfour ) feet long , five feet wide , flat bottom , with a light draft , and carried on the trip a load of about five hundred , ' pounds . The boat was propelled with oars and it was unnecessary for them to tow at all in that ( dis- dis ) tance . They were able to row through the rapid stretch in Nigger Bill and through the rapids below Castle Creek , going upstream in these stretches very nicely . ( R . 5180-5182 . ) Both men rowed going upstream . They came back down on a raft of lumber but it contained about six thousand feet , the boat being tied to the back of the raft . In the swift rapid at the mouth of Castle Creek they were hung up on a rock for about fifteen minutes but soon released the raft and went on down the river . ( R . 5183 . ) Aside from this little difficulty with the rock , they had no difficulties whatever going up or down stream . There was one place down at Nigger Bill where there is a shelf of rock that the water runs over that our raft struck a little bump of that shelf ; he just stepped off of it into ( the -the the ) water , took a ( two-by-four twobyfour ) and raised it ; it went right on over it , and away it went . He does not know whether there was or not any deeper ( sec- sec ) tion of the channel at that point where they got stuck ; apparently the water runs over a shelf there . ( R . 5184 . ) |