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Show pull it around any place 1272 they wanted to , and start right downstream . When ( he lie ) moved from his first stopping place down to his next place below the San Juan , ( he lie ) did not have a bit of trouble there ; never got hung up at all . When he made this trip back up to ( Hole-in-the- Holeinthe ) Rock with the small boat to get supplies and coming down with that boat , he did not ( have liave ) any trouble with the sand bars , or any other trouble . Never had no trouble at all . ( R . 4988-4990 . ) ( Cross-examination Crossexamination ) ( R . , Vol . 28 , pp . 4890-4893 ) : He does not know where the machinery was ( pur- pur ) chased , but ( he lie ) believes it was in Milford or Beaver , and he joined the expedition at Beaver ; that was where ( he lie ) was employed . He did not have any financial interest in it , and was just working for wages . ( R . 4990 . ) He believes it was in April that ( he lie ) went down the _ - river in the high water . To operate this placer mining they ( had bad ) to wheel the dirt ; they had sluices run up with screens on , heavy screen and fine screen , go down in this hopper on the boat ; there was a tub , stirred the mud ( lip tip ) and raised ( a'door adoor ) on each side , let it run down through the boxes with the amalgamater , seven ( amalgamates amalgamaters ) working against the screen ( in' in ) these boxes ; they all worked in the screen . ( R . 4991 . ) He worked mostly on the high bars and never any of the lower bars . He has helped to take the small boat upstream . ( R . 4991 . ) He would go up one side where the water |