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Show a road , and is yet , that 1350 follows the river from that point ( to'XIoab toXIoab ) , and passes probably within 300 feet of where he put the lumber in the ( liver river ) . Mr . Branson had a house and a corral there on the river where the rafting began . ( ( E- E R ) . 5254 . ) He would stay at this place almost every time he went through , and would see lumber there almost every time he passed ; sometimes a big pile , but he saw lumber there in varying amounts , from nothing to as high as 20 or 25 thousand feet piled on the ( bank banh ) . This was during the ( four-year fouryear ) period that he lived above ( there ther6 ) . Almost every time he passed he saw lumber in the yard . , ( R . 5255 . ) He saw teams come in there in the evening from the mountains and unload . On the raft he accompanied he never encountered any difficulty , and at times if the water was low they would probably take ten or fourteen thousand feet , and if it was high with a good stage of water they would take twenty or ( twenty-five twentyfive ) thousand feet of lumber . All of the rafts were in three sections , and the lumber was ordinarily from twelve to ( twenty-four twentyfour ) feet . ( R . 5256 . ) The layers would be from 15" to 24" deep , and would be from twelve to sixteen feet ( wide ivide ) . They never made them any wider than that . Each section would be from twelve to sixteen feet wide and twenty to ( twenty-four twentyfour ) feet long , and the three units would be sometimes ( forty-eight fortyeight ) and sometimes ( fifty- fifty ) four feet long ; the ( entire entim ) length of the three ( see- see ) |