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Show 5569 Hite - D 3577 19 Q Yes. A Yes, sir Q What part of the river did you and your friends work in your placer mining operations? A Principally between the upper Tickaboo and Good Hope. Q Well, now, with references to the water, where did you work? A I do not just get that. Q Well, did you work the river bed, or the bars? A We worked the bars. Q Well, where, with references to low water, did you work? A Well, we build chutes and screens, and would plow up the gravel and shoot it down ever those screens to the water, and sometimes used a hand machine or rocker, and sometimes a small sluice box in which we raised the water principally by hand -- and a hand pump in low water. Q What I mean is, was your work dome above or below the high water mark? |